[aur-dev] [PATCH] Use PEAR modules when submitting PKGBUILDs

Callan Barrett wizzomafizzo at gmail.com
Sun Jun 8 07:32:49 EDT 2008


On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> pkgsubmit.php now uses the PEAR modules Archive_Tar and File_Find for
>> finding the PKGBUILD and messing with tarballs, Archive_Tar should be
>> installed by default but you'll need to install File_Find yourself to
>> make this work. I've also done some other cleanup such as (aside from
>> rm_rf) no more exec use and changing some variables around.
>>
>> As far as I can tell this setup is actually faster than what we have
>> now and I know it's much cleaner (compared to before, that file is
>> still a mess) and it's also much more reliable for finding files.
>> Fixes FS#2900.
>>
>> --
>> Callan Barrett
>>
>
> Anyone got any thoughts on this one? I want to apply it but it's a
> pretty big change. Anyone using the AUR needs to have PEAR working and
> install File_Find for it to work.
>
> --
> Callan Barrett
>

Ok turns out this one needs some more tweaks to work properly, I won't
be doing anything with it until I've gone through the patch to use
bash to parse pkgbuilds and have changed the installation steps in the
readme to reflect this change.

-- 
Callan Barrett




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