[aur-general] Fwd: [pacman-dev] Help adding support for BZR, CVZ, DARCS to makepkg

[Buce]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Menachem Moystoviz <moystovi at g.jct.ac.il>wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Markus Unterwaditzer
> <markus at unterwaditzer.net> wrote:
> > Am I understanding this correctly when I read that makepkg is going to
> have sort of native support for VCS?
> >
> > -- Markus
> >
> > Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Forwarding to aur-general, as there's likely a larger corpus of people
> >>who could potentially be affected by this...
> >>
> >>Allan's a bit overly dramatic about this -- the current (old) PKGBUILDs
> >>will continue to mostly work, but I would expect that they'll break in
> >>quiet and interesting ways (e.g. pkgver won't be updated).
> >>
> >>----- Forwarded message from Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> -----
> >>
> >>> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:57:34 +1000
> >>> From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> >>> To: Discussion list for pacman development <pacman-dev at archlinux.org>
> >>> Subject: [pacman-dev] Help adding support for BZR, CVZ, DARCS to
> >>makepkg
> >>>
> >>> On my VCS branch, makepkg now supports git, svn and hg.  That
> >>accounts
> >>> for ~91.5% of all VCS PKGBUILDs in the AUR.  Here are rough AUR
> >>package
> >>> counts for those that are interested:
> >>>
> >>> git: 4002
> >>> svn: 1771
> >>> hg: 498
> >>> bzr: 364
> >>> cvs: 186
> >>> darcs: 29
> >>>
> >>> I will write the code to add bzr, cvs and darcs support back, but I
> >>need
> >>> help given I know nothing about these systems.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What I will need:
> >>>
> >>> 1) How to checkout a repo to a given folder
> >>>
> >>> 2) What url "fragments" need supported (e.g. git can build from a
> >>> branch, tag or commit; svn can build from a given revision).
> >>>
> >>> 3) How to create a working copy of the checked out repo (i.e. "copy"
> >>the
> >>> primary checkout folder) and how to get it to the specified
> >>> branch/tag/commit/whatever.  That can be in all one step.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> makepkg will not support these protocols with pacman-4.1 if I don't
> >>get
> >>> that information (or someone else does not provide a patch).
> >>>
> >>> Allan
> >>>
> >>
> >>----- End forwarded message -----
> >
>
> As Markus said, is there native support in makepkg for VCSs (i.e. git,
> bzr, hg, darcs, svn,...) or is this just a discussion regarding a
> feature request?
> If it's the former, how come it's not documented in the wiki? It would
> simplify my git PKGBUILDS greatly.
> If it's the latter, then I'm very interested, and am willing to
> provide any assistance needed - just point me to the code.
>
> M
>

It's the latter AFAIK. I'm not a pacman dev, I just lurk on the pacman-dev
mailing list, so I can't point at specific patches, but the git repo is
here:

http://projects.archlinux.org/

I'm not sure if the relevant code is in the official pacman repo or Allan's
working tree. These may also be of interest:

http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/
http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/HACKING.html
http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/submitting-patches.html

If this isn't the info you need, it might be worthwhile to ask around on
the pacman-dev mailing list. HTH.