Re: [arch-projects] [netctl] Time to move

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Jouke Witteveen wrote:

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Florian Pritz wrote:

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On 06.02.2013 17:20, Florian Pritz wrote:

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On 06.02.2013 16:38, Jouke Witteveen wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Florian Pritz wrote:

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On 05.02.2013 16:08, Jouke Witteveen wrote:

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@Florian Pritz: would you like to maintain the netctl packages as you did with the netcfg package?

If you handle the PKGBUILD and tarball generation the way netcfg did it with a makefile in the git repo, yes.

That is mostly the case. Currently, running `make pkgbuild` yields a tarball and a PKGBUILD (`make tarball` yields just the tarball). There is no `make upload` and generation of MD5SUMS.<version> anymore. Do you want them back (they were useless during netctl's time as an experimental project)?

I believe we don't even need tarballs if we have cgit. Just pull snapshots from there. I'll submit patches shortly.

Ok not as easy as I hoped it would be since src/netctl doesn't contain the version string. It's only added when you create a tarball and I'm not going to change that without discussion first.

Also, building the documentation requires asciidoc, which is not in [core].

That's not a problem. Several [core] packages already use asciidoc as makedepends.

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@Jouke: If you want to keep it the way it is, readd make upload and I'll be happy.

Yes, I think the current set-up is the better one. Do we need the MD5SUMS file? The md5sum is already recorded in the PKGBUILD. If we can drop the file, the `make upload` target would do no more than build the tarball and issue scp. Is it still desirable in that case?

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Otherwise the makefile could extract the version name from the directory it is in so if you download the tarball from cgit the dir will be named "netctl-$version" and you simple remove the "netctl-". Sadly that's a bit fragile so I'm not sure if we want to do it.