[aur-general] Promoting use of .AURINFO
Lukas Fleischer
archlinux at cryptocrack.de
Sun Jan 12 10:01:06 EST 2014
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 at 15:20:03, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> On 12/01/2014 14:35, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think we should promote the use of .AURINFO files. Currently, only a
> > very small fraction of packages use it. A basic description of its
> > format can be found in the commit message of AUR commit 5a11373 [1].
> > Regardless of whether we keep that format or use something entirely
> > different for metadata later, it is good to have this information stored
> > somewhere and the format is simple enough to migrate to another format
> > later.
> >
> Hi,
>
> I read the commit info but why do we need another file? What's the
> purpose of overriding PKGBUILD variables in AUR?
* It is impossible to extract information from a PKGBUILD properly in
general (for example if there are conflicting package descriptions for
different architectures, different dependencies depending on
machine-specific stuff), the user is the only one to decide what to
display on the AUR in these cases.
* It is hard to extract information from a PKGBUILD when common bash
features (variable substitutions etc.) are used -- basically requires
"execution" of the PKGBUILD -- this is better done on the client side.
* The current PKGBUILD parser in the AUR is extremely hackish and should
be removed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer
> https://seblu.net
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