[aur-dev] [PATCH] Suggest using makepkg instead of mkaurball

Lukas Fleischer archlinux at cryptocrack.de
Fri Dec 19 09:51:42 UTC 2014


pacman 4.2.0 supports .SRCINFO and generates meta data by default.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de>
---
 README                 | 8 ++++----
 web/html/pkgsubmit.php | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 7688ab5..6e7c414 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ Arch User Repository (AUR)
 
 The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a framework for hosting a collection of
 packaging scripts that are created and submitted by the Arch community. The
-scripts contained in the repository (PKGBUILDs) can be built using the AUR
-building/packaging script `mkaurball` and installed via the Arch package
-manager `pacman`. The AUR project aims to provide the necessary web interface,
-database schema, and scripts for a multi-lingual community-driven repository.
+scripts contained in the repository (PKGBUILDs) can be built using makepkg and
+installed via the Arch package manager pacman. The AUR project aims to provide
+the necessary web interface, database schema, and scripts for a multi-lingual
+community-driven repository.
 
 Functionality
 -------------
diff --git a/web/html/pkgsubmit.php b/web/html/pkgsubmit.php
index d8df290..098c3fa 100644
--- a/web/html/pkgsubmit.php
+++ b/web/html/pkgsubmit.php
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ if ($uid):
 		if (empty($srcinfo_raw)) {
 			$srcinfo_raw = '';
 			if (!$error) {
-				$error = __("The source package does not contain any meta data. Please use `mkaurball` to create AUR source packages.");
+				$error = __("The source package does not contain any meta data. Please use `makepkg --source` from pacman 4.2.0 or newer to create AUR source packages.");
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ html_header("Submit");
 
 <div class="box">
 	<h2><?= __("Submit"); ?></h2>
-	<p><?= __("Upload your source packages here. Create source packages with `mkaurball`.") ?></p>
+	<p><?= __("Upload your source packages here. Create source packages with `makepkg --source`.") ?></p>
 
 <?php
 	if (empty($_REQUEST['pkgsubmit']) || $error):
-- 
2.2.0


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