ejiek/pacops

PKGBUILD maintainer Swiss Army knife

Hi, I'm ejiek [ˈəlek].

Day-to-day life

• Improving software/hardware development workflows
• Teaching
• Sharing ❤️️ for documentation and collaboration in general

Technical stuff

• In love with Rust
• Automate myself out is the way
• Absolutely loves tinkering with software and hardware
• Daily drives NixOS btw

SyncUp

Some cultural stuff we might have in common:

• 📚 Books: Discworld, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
• 🎞️ Series: Black Mirror, Rick and Morty, The Boys
• 🎶 Music: Water 4 The Soul by Gramatik, Disturbed
• 🎙️ Podcasts
• 🕹️ Games: The Neverhood, Firewatch, Zelda: BOTW
• 🏅 Sports: Biking 🚵 Paragliding 🪂 Snowboarding 🏂 Climbing 🧗 Sailing ⛵ Scuba diving 🤿
• 🍽️ Food: Khachapuri
• 🄯 Passion for free and open-source software & hardware

Nickname Backstory

Relatively long ago while playing Lineage 2 c4 I've come up with a nickname EJIEKTPOBEHUK (imitation of Russian ЕЛЕКТРОВЕНИК [ˈəlektro.ˈvʲenʲɪk], where ЕЛЕКТРО means electric, ВЕНИК - type of broom). Somewhat normal transcription is electrovenik.

Venik is made of many thin branches. This makes it look vulnerable coz it's easy to break a thin branch. It's a rather common example of misjudgment. Even though a branch alone is weak, venik consists of several dozens of them. Which makes venik very tough.

Idea was that I'm rather agile, energetic and seen some stuff in the dark corners of the surroundings. Venik's toughness represents persistence in achieving far from low hanging goals.

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You can find out more about me at ejiek.id

pacops's Issues

AUR as an upstream

I have a git repository with PKGBUILDs for my binary repository.
git subtree allows me to have others AUR packages as separate directories and pull updates as if it is a local version of AUR package repo.

I suggest git subtree as a default mechanism for AUR upstream.
PacOps should try to pull changes.

Conflicts are possible when there are local changes.
We should signal user that update is available & it requires attention.

man page

There is a chance, it can be generated by clap

indicate that git subprocess failed

When there is no commiter for example

Error highlighting

https://github.com/zkat/miette looks like a great candidate for visualizing errors or recommendations relative to a particular place in PKGBUILD.

Look for PKGBUILD

If PKGBUILD is not provided PacOps should look for it in a working directory

Environmental Variables

We need a way to override config with env vars.

From lowest priority to highest:

• Defaults
• Configuration file (specified or XDG global one)
• Env Vars
• Command Line arguments

Don't forget that config file is provided by env var or an command line argument.

Alpine repo as an upstream

qemu-arm-static's PKGBUILD uses an Alpine repo which it looks pretty similar to a deb one

autocompletion

Definitely generated by clap
https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/blob/master/clap_generate/examples/value_hints.rs