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Artix Linux => Package management => Topic started by: entwinemolar on 24 December 2024, 16:22:05

Title: omniverse/fd and omniverse/just are outdated
Post by: entwinemolar on 24 December 2024, 16:22:05
omniverse/fd is at 10.1.0 but upstream (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/releases) is at 10.2.0 since August.

Likewise, omniverse/just is at 1.34.0 but upstream (https://github.com/casey/just/releases) is now at 1.38.0.

I'm also curious on what determines whether a package is in world, galaxy, or omniverse. Given that fd and just are quite popular programs, I was surprised that they are not available in world or galaxy.

Also, is Arch's extra repository preferred to omniverse or is omniverse preferred to extra? What's the best practice/recommendation in obtaining packages not available in world and galaxy?
Title: Re: omniverse/fd and omniverse/just are outdated
Post by: Artist on 24 December 2024, 17:10:13
I'm updating fd and just right now. They are rust based, so take quite long to build on the small build server I can use for this. I'm still hoping to get a build server with adequate resources.

When Artix started the goal was to have a stable platform on which anything could be installed, Later, having more resources, other packages were added as well - mostly in galaxy - but there is no intention to adopt all Arch packages.

Omniverse is my user repo as per https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#Omniverse
This contains packages built on Artix, so in pacman Include omniverse after system, world and galaxy, and before any others.

I kind of select he packages for omniverse that I think will benefit quite a few users. I keep them up-to-date to a certain extent, sometimes on request just like in this case. Other maintainers don't have to worry about omniverse pkgs; all the work is for me.  Quite often a package is 'moved' to galaxy later on, but there is no fixed rule for this.