svntogit-community VS PackageKit

The author of the AUR package, removed it from the community repo and moved it to the AUR. And now it has another maintainer in the AUR.

The original maintainer still maintains 2185 packages [2].

Can't find an explanation why though.

[0]: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/2b5ec...

[1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=units&id=e6...

[2]: https://archlinux.org/packages/?packager=arojas

In /usr/bin/ there is no cargo binary after new update. If I try call it in shell it says bash: cargo: command not found. I tried to understand git commit message - symlink was changed and rust-analyzer is deleted. So I need to add some environment export to my shell and install rust analyzer from now?

The package was updated 18 hours ago (https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/a389cb3538aa3c73e2ca75227c151bbcdaf0bfa2) please check your mirrors!

Guess there is no easy way, well here is a command that will generate a nice list: curl -L https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/raw/packages/nerd-fonts/trunk/PKGBUILD 2> /dev/null | tr -d '\n' | grep -oP '(?<=pkgname=\().*?(?=\))' | sed -r 's/\s+/ /g'

Here's the PKGBUILD link: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/signal-desktop/trunk/PKGBUILD

About a week ago I began encountering some little bugs with a few application's icons in the system tray. I use Arch with GNOME Wayland and Papirus icons, and my only extension is gnome-shell-extension-appindicator. I believe it started after this update: gnome-shell-extension-appindicator (specific commit in question)

The PackageKit crash is a problem in PackageKit itself. You'll want to get a sybolicated backtrace of the crash and submit a bug report to https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/issues/.

The original patch author described another issue from locked packages being installed as a recommends dependency. https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/557

PackageKit-backend-zypp is weird. Some logic is delegated to libzypp so it's however libzypp supports/implements a feature, OTOH some logic requires the PK backend to reimplement. If it doesn't it results in issues like this one https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/557. I don't think this approach is reliable.

The source code.

ALPM integration is not a direct Arch project and done by third party on an as available basis. It might get improvements it might not. It does look quite active https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/commits/main/backends/alpm FWIW but in general Arch isn't really designed with these things in mind. The other bigger distributions also invest/used to invest a lot of time for package descriptions and the like while explicitly and primarily relies on the appstream database for information which may or may not be up to date.

I think what OP is using for updates is the gnome software application which is based on the more general packagekit framework (KDE's discover uses the same framework). And one feature of packagekit is the ability to install updates at shutdown (Sorry, can't find a better link in a quick search)

Luckily, that's on track to finally being fixed. It's been fixed in PackageKit and should only be a matter of time before GNOME Software picks it up: https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/526