On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:07:07AM +0100, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

Hello,

I am pleased to announce that AUR 3.5.0 has been released. The official AUR setup [1] has already been updated.

This release adds support for architecture-specific sources (resp. provides, conflicts, replaces) and for .SRCINFO, both of which will be included in the next pacman release. Apart from that, the package list and package base list are now official and available at [2, 3]. There have also been a couple of internal changes and bug fixes.

For a comprehensive list of changes, please consult the Git log [4]. As usual, bugs should be reported to the AUR bug tracker [5].

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.gz [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase.gz [4] https://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/log/?id=v3.5.0 [5] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2

Hi, In addition to this, I'll be releasing a new version of mkaurball today which ceases generation of AURINFO and creates SRCINFO instead. If you're using a recent enough pacman-git[0], mkaurball will just forward on makepkg, offering very little of its own logic. Consider this is the beginning of my efforts to deprecate mkaurball. Of of the pacman 4.2.0, mkaurball will be obsolete and will likely be replaced with a script which just yells at you to use makepkg instead. Cheers, dR [0] https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=6029a77ac

On 23/11/14 06:54 PM, David Phillips wrote:

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Consider this is the beginning of my efforts to deprecate mkaurball. Of of the pacman 4.2.0, mkaurball will be obsolete and will likely be replaced with a script which just yells at you to use makepkg instead. I'm confused. Would someone like to clear this up for me? I thought that mkaurball was becoming the favoured method of making source packages for the AUR? Wasn't it fairly recent that we switched from `makepkg --source` to `mkaurball`?

Mkaurball was a temporary way to improve the AUR between pacman releases. The makepkg script that comes with pacman 4.2.0 will contain the exact same functionality.