On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 at 13:56:44, Peter Littmann wrote:
[...] Could you please send more infos about mkaurball, the new format and if this page in the wiki is still true: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Metadata
Wow, didn't know about that page. Thanks for the work. mkaurball is a tool written by Dave that should be used to build packages for the AUR in the future. It is included in the pkgbuild_reflection [1] repository (which might change some day, and there will be a package in the official Arch repositories). Basically, that script just calls `makepkg --source`, then generates .AURINFO and includes it in the source tarball.
What should be changed? BTW: How to handle split packages?
* The "depend" field has been renamed to "depends". * Split packages are supported by mkaurball and by .AURINFO but not by the AUR yet. That means that you will be able to create a valid source tarball with valid meta data using mkaurball but the AUR will simply reject such packages. I am working on a solution. There might be support for split packages in the AUR soon.