A while ago I started working on a derivative of makepkg to support having 'git://...' type urls in the sources=() array. When preparing to file this patch, I did a `git rebase`, and noticed that Allan McRae began working on a similar feature. Our implementations are in many ways similar. Hopefully mine will be useful. My implementation makes minimal changes to makepkg itself (only adding blob expansion to DLAGENTS, allowing for things like "git+*::""). Instead I added a `vcsget` tool which generates a tarball from the VCS repo, in a very similar manner to the way Allan's implementation does so within makepkg. It looks as if Allan's download_*() functions are more verbose than mine about what failed when there is an error. His svn and hg handlers are likely more robust--though my git is pretty solid. I also have a half-written handler for for bzr. An advantage of my design is that it does allow for integrity checks of VCS packages, rather than inserting 'SKIP' into the md5sums array. This is very important to the derivative distribution Parabola. (However, the 'SKIP' option is still valuable for URLs that track a branch) Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker Luke Shumaker (3): Add a `vcsget` tool to download source from VCS repositories. makepkg: do glob expansion in DLAGENTS maps makepkg.conf: add vcsget DLAGENTS etc/makepkg.conf.in | 8 +- scripts/.gitignore | 1 + scripts/Makefile.am | 4 +- scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 13 ++- scripts/vcsget.sh.in | 294 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 316 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 scripts/vcsget.sh.in -- 1.7.12