On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de> wrote:
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.
I just created an AUR package for pkgbuild_reflection. Dave or Lukas, feel free to orphan and adopt this package, if you want. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbuild-reflection-git/ Jason