Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Integrate versionpkg into makepkg

On 10/29/07, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2007/10/29, Dan McGee :

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On 10/29/07, Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On 10/27/07, Miklos Vajna wrote:

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for darcs and git, you could use curl to determine the last update of the repo. they will be still ugly (not as nice as git-describe is), but at least it will show when the master branch is updated

like:

date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S --date '`curl -I $url/HEAD 2>&1|sed -n '/^Last-Modified/s/^[^:]*: //p'`'

and

lynx -source -dump $url/_darcs/inventory|grep ']'|sed -n 's/.*\*\(.*\)\]./\1/;$ p'

Doesn't this require a web interface though? I guess we're already pinned to some sort of web interface, but I'm just thinking outloud. Is there a use-case where a darcs or git repo would NOT be HTTP accessible?

Well if I use a git:// address in my PKGBUILD, then yeah, this method screws us.

Did we really think the git tools wouldn't do there job? The only reason I didn't do this before is because I was just accepting it the way it currently works for versionpkg, although now might be the time to make this change.

The following will take ANY GIT repo url (local FS, http://, git://, etc) and produce a nice pretty version name for you.

git-ls-remote $_gitroot $_gitname | git-describe

Example: $git ls remote git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git master | git-describe v3.0.0-497-g014306e

Now that wasn't too hard, now was it? The only problem is that git-describe uses '-' characters in its version. Do we allow this, or is that reserved as a seperator for the pkgrel? I know there are some funny parsing issues we have to make sure we do right.

I think '-' should not be allowed. It can be replaced with '_'.

I did forget to note as well- you have to have a local copy of the repo before you can run git-describe, so that may rule its usage out. -Dan