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Hi all, |
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Good news regarding packages.g.o! |
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While the new packages.g.o version went into production some time ago, |
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this also led to some false warnings about outdated package versions. |
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This is because we currently take information about outdated package |
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versions from repology.org, which are not always accurate. |
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To avoid these false warnings it's now possible to filter the repology |
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checks. To do so, there is a new git repository called |
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soko-metadata[0]. The repository contains a folder called repology, |
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which in turn contains three files: |
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1) ignored-repositories: You can add repositories that should be |
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globally ignored for the repology checks for *all* packages. E.g. |
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Windows only repositories as appget might be disabled globally here. |
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2) ignored-categories: You can disable the repology check for whole |
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categories here. The check will be disabled for all packages in this |
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category. |
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3) ignored-packages: You can either disable the repology check for a |
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single package here (e.g. sys-auth/pambase), or disable a repository |
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for the repology check for a single package here using atom::repo |
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(e.g.: net-misc/dropbox::void_x86_64). The later option is especially |
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useful if another distribution creates a non-standard version for a |
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single package and all versions of other distributions are marked as |
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outdated because of this (as in the case of dropbox and void linux). |
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The soko-metadata repository is writable by all devs, so that all |
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package maintainers are welcome to contribute to reduce the number of |
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false warnings. |
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-M |
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[0] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/soko-metadata.git/ |