Miklos Vajna wrote:
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 04:32:15PM -0500, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes there is use for this- to help people using makepkg comply with the GPL and providing source and the necessary tools to build it when they provide binary packages. I didn't remove the --source option on purpose; you can still generate a src.tar.gz package with the minimal files needed and none of the downloaded source.
ah, i see. it's your decision, but maybe it would worth considering what Gentoo and Frugalware does: just run a script from cron that extracts urls from buildscripts, checks for missing downloaded source tarballs, obtains them and you're done.
http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=blob;...
of course this src.tar.gz approach may have other benefits i don't see..
Don't only think of the for use by the main distro. There are plenty of people hosting a small custom repo that does not warrant such a cron job. Allan