[aur-general] pacman4.1 PKGBUILD-git help needed

[Maxime GAUDUIN]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Rafael Ferreira <josephgbr at archlinux.info>wrote:

> Em 08/04/2013 16:10, Rob Til Freedmen escreveu:
>
>  I've received a comment this morning from
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages/argotlunar-git/<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/argotlunar-git/>
>>
>> gtmanfred wrote:
>> 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/**index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_**Guidelines<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines>
>> pacman 4.1 supporst git
>> also, patches should be in the prepare() function'
>>
>> I didn't found an updated PKGBUILD-git.proto nor an example of prepare()
>> for patches.
>> All I had was an example from the VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines to convert
>> PKGBUILD to pacman4.1 standards
>>
>> Alas, makepkg throws an error;
>>
>> ==> Retrieving sources...
>> ==> ERROR: /src/argotlunar-git/argotlunar is not a clone of git://
>> github.com/mourednik/**argotlunar<http://github.com/mourednik/argotlunar>
>> Aborting...
>>
>> http://sprunge.us/LNCi
>>
>> What do I missing?
>> Any advice are welcome!
>>
>
> Examples: pacman-git
>
> I was able to build it and I didn't see anything wrong in your PKGBUILD,
> but maybe I missed something. I suggest removing 'src' folder (and the
> folder of 'SRCDEST' in case you set it in /etc/makepkg.conf), then try
> again.
>
> Rafael Ferreira
>

BTW you can ditch the _gitname variable, using ${pkgname%-*} or
${pkgname%-git} if you prefer will give you the same string.

Cheers.
-- 
Maxime