On Sun 02 Aug 2009 18:43 +0200, Xyne wrote:
I suspected that it was scraping the PKGBUILDs due to discrepancies reported on the bug tracker (valid PKGBUILDs not being properly parsed on the AUR, etc).
There is no fully functional solution to extracting data from bash PKGBUILDs. Sourcing it exposes you to malicious code and implementing a full interpreter would do the same (as it would have to handle command outputs, which in turn means running commands). Anything less will not be able to fully parse all valid PKGBUILDs. That's why I've been playing around with the idea of a non-bash PKGBUILD [1]. The AUR would definitely benefit from this as would any application which interacts with it. It would be nice to accurately resolve dependency trees using only the JSON-RPC interface, for example.
Where can I view the code for the web pages?
I'd like to note that a non-bash PKGBUILD won't be supported by the AUR unless it gets official support via pacman/makepkg.