[aur-dev] Git repositories for AUR packages

Rémy Marquis remy.marquis at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 16:31:59 EDT 2014


Thanks Lukas for the follow up, and also for the work achieved on AUR 3.0.0!

> In order to submit new packages, you will be able to generate empty Git
> repositories via the AUR web interface. During the transition period,
> all existing source tarballs will be converted to bare repositories with
> one initial commit whose tree equals the tarball contents.

Does this mean that all existing source tarballs will obtain full
.AURINFO metadata?
This is especially important for external tools like helpers. As of
AUR 3.0.0, it is difficult to use the dependencies info from the RPC
interface to solve the dependency tree, since only the newly uploaded
packages have the metadata generated.

Regards,
R.


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