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

On 10/27/07, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:

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?