[aur-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Store {make, check, opt}depends in the database

William Giokas 1007380 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 17:29:41 EDT 2014


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:07:26PM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 at 21:33:47, William Giokas wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 09:13:34PM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > > In addition to parsing and storing dependencies of packages, store
> > > makedepends, checkdepends and optdepends. Every dependency (of any type)
> > > is displayed on the package details page.
> > 
> > So I'm not sure how it's all set up, but if this can be pulled via the
> > api, then that would be amazing. Would really clean up a bunch of AUR
> > helpers out there. I know pywer has some terrible bash parsing to try
> > and get the depends and optdepends from the actual PKGBUILD file, which
> > is extremely unreliable.
> > [...]
> 
> Not yet. My TODO list currently looks like this:
> 
> 1. Parse and store package conflicts, provides and replaces.
> 2. Parse and store package groups.
> 3. Parse and store the license array (currently stored as a string).
> 4. Update the RPC interface to provide all the new fields.
> 5. Do a lot of testing.
> 6. Tell Dave to move mkaurball to [community].
> 7. Do a lot of testing.
> 8. Release 3.0.0.
> 
> So yes, this will eventually be available via the API.

Awesome. I'll be more than willing to help with the testing when that
phase comes around. Keeping my eye on aur-dev now.

Thanks,
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