[aur-general] Confusing over .AURINFO usage

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 10:33:54AM -0400, member graysky wrote:
> On 03/18/2013 08:18 PM, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> >* Changes since 2.0.1:*>**>* * Typeahead suggest for packages.*>* * Fix account editing and hijacking vulnerability.*>* * Fix account privilege escalation vulnerability.*>* * Clear a user's active sessions following account suspension.*>* * Several translation fixes/updates.*>* * pkgsubmit.php: Parse .AURINFO metadata.*>**>* .AURINFO files can now be included in source packages to overwrite*>* specific PKGBUILD fields. .AURINFO files are parsed line by line. The*>* syntax for each line is "key = value", where key is any of the following*>* field names:*>**>* * pkgname*>* * pkgver*>* * pkgdesc*>* * url*>* * license*>* * depend*>**>* Multiple "depend" lines can be specified to add multiple dependencies.*>**>* You can check the Git log [1] for a complete list of commits.*>**>* The official Arch Linux AUR setup [2] has already been upgraded!*>**>* [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/log/?id=v2.1.0*>* [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/*
> 
> 
> I created ./.AURINFO which contains a single line:
> 
>  pkgdesc = NVIDIA drivers for linux-ck.
> 
> I ran `makepkg --source` to gen the AUR package but found no traces of
> the .AURINFO file therein.  Unsurprisingly, the AUR did not pickup on
> this when I uploaded the corresponding nvidia-ck-313.30-5.src.tar.gz
> package.  Are users expected to manually add .AURINFO to the
> src.tar.gz post makepkg?

As you can guess from the name, .AURINFO is AUR specific. Thus it is not
added by makepkg(8). You can add it manually -- make sure you put it
into the subdirectory, though.

Of course, we aim at creating meta data automatically at some point, so
feel free to come up with something that parses source packages,
generates .AURINFO and adds them to the tarball.

> 
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.