On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:49:11AM -0400, Loui Chang wrote:
On Tue 27 Jul 2010 15:25 +0200, vlad wrote:
Here is a patch against makepkg from git which introduces a new function "write_srcinfo()". This generates a file .SRCINFO - like the .PKGINFO one - when "makepkg --source" is run and then it is added to the src.tar.gz archive. I think having such a file is an important step for getting split packages to the AUR. It is also useful for third party applications. Since this file is generated during making the source archive, there is no need for parsing/sourcing the PKGBUILD everytime meta infos are needed afterwards. This is also a way of standardizing the source archive.
.SRCINFO looks like (generated for gcc from core):
Nice. :D This is something that I had been brainstorming too. Hehe, that's why I did it. I wanted to give this a push. You should submit it to the pacman-dev list and/or the pacman bug tracker. Is pacman-dev public or open for non-devs?
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