[aur-dev] What should AURv4 helpers do to get packages?

[Rémy Marquis]

On 9 Jun 2015 22:58, "Lukas Fleischer" <lfleischer at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 at 16:52:52, Chris Warrick wrote:
> > Hello,
> > In AURv4, URLPath was removed due to the introduction of Git
> > integration, which raises the question: what is the recommended way
> > for AUR helpers to get packages?  Should they:
> >
> > (a) manually generate a clone URL (/PKGBASE.git/) and clone it?
>
> Yes, please clone using Git and use `git pull` (or `git fetch`) for
> updates. Alternatively, if you don't care about the package base
> history, create a shallow clone with "--depth 1".
>
> > (b) manually generate a tarball URL
> > (/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/PKGBASE.tar.gz) and download it?
>
> Please don't do that. The snapshot tarballs are only designed for users
> who don't have access to a working Git setup.
>
> > (c) do something else entirely?
> >
> > In other words: could you please add a RPC field with a “recommended”
> > URL to work with?
> >
>
> I could do that. Note that I don't see a good reason for ever changing
> the clone URIs though (unless we switch to a completely different system
> again), so I am not sure whether such a field is needed.

Some AUR helpers (cower, aurget, ..) currently rely in this URLPath field
for retrieving the correct tarball.

It would be very useful to allow backward compatibility with the RPC
interface v3, at least for the time being.