Upstream issues

[AladW]

Closed

• aria2c errors are output to stdout, instead of stderr place errors on stderr, instead of stdout aria2/aria2#638
• aria2c no ability to disable download results No ability to disable download results aria2/aria2#639
• aria2c returns 0 when standard input is empty (No files to download) returns 0 when file/stdin is empty with -i aria2/aria2#637 (wontfix)
• expac does not support repositories defined with Include Does not query sync db if repo is defined in Include file falconindy/expac#28
• expac prints all packages in the sync db if stdin is empty Shows all sync packages if stdin is empty with - falconindy/expac#29
• makechrootpkg possible to run makepkg --asroot FS#43432
• makechrootpkg unclear usage text on importing of variables like PKGDEST FS#44827
• makechrootpkg does not respect GNUPGHOME (https://git.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=ffb5003fdacaece3540ba167f7e965a122133af0)
• makepkg install_package always returns 0 pacman-dev
• makepkg gnupg fails due to running in fakeroot FS#49946
• pacman vercmp alpha '' results in -1 (alpha < "") FS#49093
• pacutils update a single repository pacsync $repo and pactrans andrewgregory/pacutils#4
• pacutils missing space in confirmation prompt pactrans: missing space in confirmation prompt andrewgregory/pacutils#8
• pacutils pacsift --repo misses results compared to pacman -Sl pacsift --repo misses packages compared to pacman -Sl andrewgregory/pacutils#9 (wontfix)
• pacutils pacsift --sync | pacinfo --short segfaults pacinfo --short segfaults andrewgregory/pacutils#10
• pacutils support for inverting pacconf configuration --invert equivalent for pacconf andrewgregory/pacutils#12
• pacutils floating point exception pacsync: Floating point exception andrewgregory/pacutils#13
• pacutils pacinfo returns 0 on missing package pacinfo: exit 0 when package not found andrewgregory/pacutils#14
• pacutils support for inverting prompts pactrans: support for inverting default options andrewgregory/pacutils#15 (wontfix)
• setconf Increment variables with spaces Increment values with spaces xyproto/setconf#6
• shellcheck Does not handle UTF-8 on non UTF-8 locales gracefully hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence) koalaman/shellcheck#324

Reported

• aurweb arch-specific make/depends aren't separated FS#48796
• aurweb allow using POST requests to prevent 414 FS#49089
• aurweb does not allow to query provide-only packages FS#49090
• aurweb misses a Last-Modified field for packages.gz/pkgbase.gz FS#49092
• aurweb no support for regex searches FS#49099
• aurweb no support for versioned queries FS#54906
• aurweb no support for querying pkgbase FS#57230
• aurweb no support for querying groups FS#57902
• libalpm Relies on the locale to parse database files FS#49342
• makechrootpkg required variables for pinentry not available in chroot arch-projects
• arch-nspawn replaces CacheDir unconditionally patch
• makepkg "Unknown error" when answering "n" to pacman -Rn prompt (patch: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2019-January/023103.html, discussion: http://ix.io/1yLx)
• pacsift: no output if --sysroot is specified pacsift: no output if --sysroot=/ is specified explicitely andrewgregory/pacutils#26

Not reported

• expac misses support for --sysroot
• libmakepkg message.sh misses PURPLE and CYAN
• mkarchroot Failed to copy /etc/resolv.conf to /root/etc/resolv.conf
• makechrootpkg rm: cannot remove '/logdest/logpipe.zJztfPcl': No such file or directory
  pacman-dev
• makechrootpkg default makepkg options cannot be overridden (in particular --noconfirm)
• makepkg hangs on INT (Ctrl+C, interactive) when run from a script
• repo-add relies on hardcoded list of extensions: mimetype should suffice

[rmarquis]

You can add to your list that the RPC currently includes all architecture dependent (make)depends in the same arrays. See here for details.

[AladW]

Added, thanks for the reminder.

[AladW]

Upstream issues for repose:

• repose performance issues with large databases performance issues after a certain amount of packages vodik/repose#42
• repose does not take absolute paths to packages Ability to add packages to db via absolute path vodik/repose#49
• repose failure on database signing Issue with -s | --sign param vodik/repose#46
• repose parsing errors
• repose segmentation faults

Removed from the first post as support will be removed from aurbuild, see #238.

[eli-schwartz]

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49946 fixed in git

Error codes for all in https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2017-September/022156.html
Currently in the patchqueue at https://git.archlinux.org/users/allan/pacman.git/commit/?h=patchqueue&id=ab2be5794de8a57426ec3fc0f631cc766a0b8227

[eli-schwartz]

pacman vercmp alpha '' results in -1 (alpha < "") FS#49093

Submitted fix at https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2017-December/022211.html
At least, empty strings are still considered valid version strings, but passing only one argument is now an error.

[eli-schwartz]

pacman vercmp alpha '' results in -1 (alpha < "") FS#49093

What's the dead end here? vercmp alpha is now a fatal error in the latest stable release. I don't think it's strictly necessary to call vercmp with quoted arguments, as any actual version in the wild, with a space in it, is invalid and can be checked as such -- vercmp doesn't do any checks at all to determine whether a pkgver is invalid or not.

From the bug report:

Well, vercmp is useful in other cases, such as comparing sync/local versions (with pacman --print or expac) against the AUR RPC (with curl/json). If either string is empty, you'd have to be aware of the limitation, and workaround by e.g. setting -1 yourself if the variable is empty.

Anyway in this case I'd expect detecting a nonexistent package to be implemented via checking the returned contents of curl/expac, rather than making assumptions about the version comparison.

[AladW]

I guess it can be handled in a satisfactory way from the caller, unlike any of the other "dead end" issues. I moved it to "closed".

[eli-schwartz]

Great, we're now even closer to "all dead ends lead to aurweb". :D

[micwoj92]

pacsift: no output if --sysroot is specified andrewgregory/pacutils#26

Should be marked as done I think, upstream issue was solved.