[aur-general] Fwd: [pacman-dev] Help adding support for BZR, CVZ, DARCS to makepkg

Forwarding to aur-general, as there's likely a larger corpus of people who could potentially be affected by this... Allan's a bit overly dramatic about this -- the current (old) PKGBUILDs will continue to mostly work, but I would expect that they'll break in quiet and interesting ways (e.g. pkgver won't be updated). ----- Forwarded message from Allan McRae -----

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:57:34 +1000 From: Allan McRae To: Discussion list for pacman development Subject: [pacman-dev] Help adding support for BZR, CVZ, DARCS to makepkg

On my VCS branch, makepkg now supports git, svn and hg. That accounts for ~91.5% of all VCS PKGBUILDs in the AUR. Here are rough AUR package counts for those that are interested:

git: 4002 svn: 1771 hg: 498 bzr: 364 cvs: 186 darcs: 29

I will write the code to add bzr, cvs and darcs support back, but I need help given I know nothing about these systems.

What I will need:

1) How to checkout a repo to a given folder

2) What url "fragments" need supported (e.g. git can build from a branch, tag or commit; svn can build from a given revision).

3) How to create a working copy of the checked out repo (i.e. "copy" the primary checkout folder) and how to get it to the specified branch/tag/commit/whatever. That can be in all one step.

makepkg will not support these protocols with pacman-4.1 if I don't get that information (or someone else does not provide a patch).

Allan

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