[aur-general] About PKGBUILD of the automatic nightly builds

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:40:57AM +0800, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
> Recently,I was attracted by the songbird and nightingage media player
> based on Mozilla Tech.And I noticed these to nightly build PKGBUILD in
> AUR whose pkgver is part of a shell command string,and I want to do
> something to make that pkgver recognised by the AUR interface.
> 
> Anyone who can tell me how to write a automatic nightly build
> PKGBUILD?Or,is there any standard on nightly build PKGBUILD?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> bin32-songbird-nightly:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44366
> songbird-nightly-bin:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32932

Short answer: Please don't do this sort of magical garbage. As an AUR
helper author, I send apples full of razor blades to people who do this.

Long answer: If you insist, you can probably fool the AUR with a
redefinition, in the same way that split packages are done, e.g.

pkgver=2011.12.19
: && pkgver=$(<<<cat sed statement)

The first definition of the pkgver will still be the one that remains as
the AUR's recognized version, though.

dave