On Tue 03 Aug 2010 11:22 +0200, vlad wrote:
Here is a mail I sent to the arch-general list containing a patch for makepkg which generates a .SRCINFO file when running "makepkg --source". Below I'll make some more comments, present some more ideas on this topic.
As you see this file consists of different parts separated by a leading tag. "global" denotes the global PKGBUILD vars and the name of the split package denotes the local package variables. However, this is just a first formatting approach. This can be changed according to further needs. I think this is a clear and easily readable/parseable output. Note that "packager" defaults to the person who actually build the source archive. Perhaps this has to be changed to AUR user name, not to the makepkg.conf PACKAGER entry.
Nah. I think an online repo would keep the PACKAGER variable as-is. There might be something separate like 'uploader', or 'maintainer'. It would be like uploading an mp3 to a site. The artist id3 tag wouldn't replaced with the uploader's name. Not that anyone does such things.