Rename project
There is now an AUR package named pacman-mirrors
created by MSYS2 for WSL. I've submitted a deletion request, but that could take weeks or months to be addressed.
Proposal: Rename pacman-mirrors
to manjaro-mirrors
.
Users will see an update for pacman-mirrors
if they have the AUR enabled in Pamac or use any other AUR helper:
❯ vercmp 4.23.2-2 20221016-1
-1
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- Mark Wagie changed the description
changed the description
- Developer
Deletion / renaming of the AUR package has been requested. For the time being to avoid accidental installation by our users we can use an epoch version. Renaming the package in our repos because of some random AUR package seems inappropriate to me.
- Developer
Lets do the rename as just also discussed on Telegram
- Bernhard Landauer closed
closed
- Author Developer
The rename is complete.
manjaro-mirrors
4.23.2+2+g2f58b3c-1 will be available in all branches shortly. - Owner
@yochananmarqos1 I don't recommend to act on reddit posts so fast. If there would be a problem with same names of packages in the AUR and pamac we would have bigger issues. I opened an issue anyway: pamac#1312 (closed).
Here is what I think. The user is using some other AUR helper like yay or whatever. Those are not supported by us officially anyway. yay is somehow in our community repo maintained by us. Anyway, we have more packages from the AUR in our repos and it was never a problem if ours were older than the AUR would ship, at least with pamac. Sure if you use an AUR helper, that might prefer AUR packages over our binary packages, which might let to the issue that Reddit user had.
We have now the package renamed, but not the project itself. So this is just an half-baked solution for maybe a bigger solution - even if there is no issue to begin with.
- Owner
Seems Bogdan has this update suggestion on an outdated German mirror (Pamac 10.4.3-2 - libpamac 11.4.1-3):
If I check with the latest Alpha release of libpamac I oddly only get the regular version and listing of the core package also for the AUR:
Also my ALL listing is different on the latest alpha:
I thought will chime in since this issue kind of made our morning more colorful ... If we continue using the
manjaro-mirrors
name, just we have to make sure the branch are not changed for the user, as was reported it happens on the forum, and i can confirm it did happen.renaming pacman-mirrors would create a tsunami of other issues - both with documentation, forum, wiki etc.
When I suggested this years ago - pacman-mirrors was an established package with an established functionality and the idea was rejected.
The only correct approach is to get the offending package removed from AUR.
Not only is it causing issues for Manjaro users - but I think Arch users would be equally offended by it.
Also with the install as a new package all users will have their branch changed to default stable branch - that is not acceptable.
Please see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-mirrors#comment-894948
I agree with @philm that the renaming was a premature and completely unnecessay action.
Edited by Frede H- Owner
Well we can try to have a package like this:
replaces = pacman-mirrorlist conflict = pacman-mirrorlist conflict = pacman-mirrors-dev conflict = maint conflict = reflector provides = pacman-mirrorlist=20221223-1 provides = pacman-mirrors=4.23.2+2+g2f58b3c-1 provides = pacman-mirrors=20221223-1
@fhdk I was sleeping, as I'm in Asia when this happend.
The AUR package owner has already requested a name change. I suppose it should not take long. So will Manjaro revert this name change when that happens?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-mirrors#comment-894944
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A perfectly valid question is - given the resources the msys2 project has - why are they publishing their mirrorlist on AUR?
https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/3452#issuecomment-1363744151
Edited by Frede H