[aur-dev] [PATCH] git-update: Check for missing install and source files

[Gordian Edenhofer]

On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 15:34 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 at 15:09:43, Gordian Edenhofer wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > This kind of check would see files which are named e.g. lp:foo 
> > > > as 
> > > > not
> > > > missing even if they are.
> > > 
> > > Sure, we only check local files and lp:foo is a remote file. 
> > > Checking
> > > remote sources is something that we cannot do properly.
> > 
> > I did not suggest checking remote sources.
> > My question was why excluding the check for files with "lp:" in 
> > their
> > name. lp:whatever is a valid name for a local file, why should I 
> > expect
> > them to be remote?
> 
> "lp:whatever" is not a valid name for a local file in makepkg(8). In
> order to avoid confusion with Bazaar/Launchpad URIs, everything that
> contains "lp:" is considered a remote file. You can check the makepkg
> source code to convince yourself that it uses the same method for
> distinguishing between local and remote files.
> 
> [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/scripts/libmakepkg
> /util/source.sh.in#n40

Thank you very much for the explanation! I was not aware of that.
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