[aur-general] SVN package, pkgver() and SRCDEST

[Maxime GAUDUIN]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Rafael Ferreira
<josephgbr at archlinux.info>wrote:

> Em 08/04/2013 17:35, Daniel Wallace escreveu:
>
>  On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:23:24PM -0300, Rafael Ferreira wrote:
>> Hi there.
>>
>> I notice that if you have SRCDEST set in makepkg.conf, working in
>> 'src/' folder with Subversion doesn't seem to work just like 'git
>> log -1 ....' or 'git describe | ....', as it seems that 'src/' is
>> simply a 'svn export' copy of $SRCDEST (e.g.: /home/foobar/sources).
>>
>> In pcsx2-svn [1], I'm using the following function to accomplish the
>> task of getting pkgver dynamically:
>>
>> pkgver () {
>> svnversion "${SRCDEST:-$srcdir}"/$pkgname
>> }
>>
>> Any opinions or better solution to get pkgver?
>>
>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages/pcsx2-svn/<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pcsx2-svn/>
>>
>> Rafael Ferreira
>>
>> you could just cd $pkgnaem and not include $SRCDEST or $srcdir, because
>> before pkgver, makepkg places you in the correct directory to just cd
>> into the svn checkout.
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply, Daniel.
>
> Actually no. Makepkg will place me specifically in $srcdir which is
> "<working folder>/src". If a 'svn export' is made from makepkg's $SRCDEST
> to $srcdir, the copy inside $srcdir won't be a svn working copy.
>
> See the ouptut:
>
> ~/repos/pkgbuilds/pcsx2-svn/**src/pcsx2 $ LC_ALL=C svn info | grep
> ^Revision
> svn: E155007: '/home/rafael/repos/pkgbuilds/**pcsx2-svn/src/pcsx2' is not
> a working copy
>
> ... however:
>
> ~/sources/pcsx2 $ LC_ALL=C svn info | grep ^Revision
> Revision: 5607
>
>
>
This is already known, look here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines#Subversion

Cheers.
-- 
Maxime