[aur-general] PKGBUILD that helps with VCS upstream contribution?

[Xavier Chantry]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder at lavabit.com> wrote:
>
> So you do follow upstream in a separate directory
> (~/data/devel/pacman/pacman), make your changes there, resolve conflicts
> if they arise, stuff like that. Then the PKGBUILD clones that git repo
> and builds from it. Ok, sounds like a workable solution, thanks :)
>

That's it.

> I guess that works with svn and simple cp as well? The problem with svn
> is probably getting the changes upstream?
>

I don't know any VCS that automate the process of getting the changes
upstream, but we can dream.