Frustrated: confusing behavior when installing xen about rua

[vn971]

Thanks for the report! Sorry for the frustration with the removed artifacts.. Regarding deletion of cache dir -- it's a known thing:

Smart caching is not implemented yet. To avoid outdated builds, RUA wipes caches in case of possible conflict. This may change in the future.
https://github.com/vn971/rua#limitations

Basically, the program currently has no idea in which state the build directory is, so it always wipes it out entirely. Even with that, however, it makes sense to not touch the "checked_tars" dir while we haven't started a new build yet. I'll do that, that's takeaway N1.

Another thing is that installation went wrong. Guessing by the logs, it only ever proposed to install xen-docs, but not xen itself. That's takeaway N2.

[Morganamilo]

What exactly do you mean by state? You can easily just call makepkg -C. For the checked tars I'm not so sure how you'd want to handle that.

[vn971]

@Morganamilo I mean understanding whether a package lase already being built, if that was the latest version, etc. Basically, if RUA sees a directory, it currently has no way to know whether it's the last version that we need to build, and deletes it to ensure that build is not outdated.

[Morganamilo]

But makepkg will automatically rebuild the package if it is out of date.

[vn971]

@Morganamilo but how to update the AUR repo and its PKGBUILD?

[Morganamilo]

Git pull?

[vn971]

@Morganamilo so instead of cleaning each time, you propose to build in a dirty dir... I have to think about it. It's not the way I planned it, but maybe it's OK.

[Morganamilo]

Well you need to reset first to get rid of changes such as automated pkgver bumps. But you get to keep the sources and built packages that way.

[vn971]

I fixed the sudo loop as well now, when it asked the same question over again even though the package is already installed. Commit dffee34

[vn971]

And fixed the last part of the issue now -- missing to install xen and only installing xen-docs. Fixed in the latest commit & the new release.

The story with split packages should still be improved, but at least some common patterns are now covered. Hopefully I'll have some time for completely finishing split packages story in the weekends, but no promises.