[aur-general] PKGBUILD URL has changed

[Dave Reisner]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 03:37:59AM +0100, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:
> On 2011/2/26 Justin Davis <jrcd83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just wanted to let AUR helper authors (or other AUR enthusiasts)
> > know that the PKGBUILD URL has changed on the AUR. All AUR helpers
> > should update your code. I knew the AUR was updated recently but I did
> > not realize that the URLs were changed for PKGBUILDs until I looked
> > carefully at the AUR and the new patches. I found out earlier today
> > and wanted to help others who might wonder why their AUR software
> > slowly starts to break.
> >
> > The old scheme was: /packages/<name>/<name>/PKGBUILD
> > The new scheme is: /packages/<name>/PKGBUILD
> 
> The URL for tarballs is
>     /packages/$name/$name.tar.gz
> and I don't think this has ever changed in the past months
> 
> I don't think anyone is downloading mere PKGBUILDs and doing anything
> useful with that: PKGBUILDs are useless without their associated
> files.
> 
> -- 

This isn't dealing with tarballs. This is strictly for the extracted
PKGBUILDs that have _always_ existed at /packages/$name/$name/PKGBUILD.
I've been downloading from that URI for nearly a year now and only today
I noticed it was broken after Justin kindly pointed it out to me.

If you run 'cower -ii <pkg>', cower performs a second request explicitly
to get the PKGBUILD and parse out extra information like depends,
makedepends, replaces, optdepends... I'm not alone here. I know
brisbin's aurget allow fetching PKGBUILDs just for previewing, and I'm
fairly sure that yaourt has a similar feature. This is _definitely_
something that is used. Those PKGBUILDs have value on their own.

dave