[aur-general] Promoting use of .AURINFO

Dave Reisner d at falconindy.com
Thu Jan 16 21:11:54 EST 2014


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:31:40PM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 08:52:46PM +0100, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > 3) duplicate a lot of stuff in the pkgname section, even if it's
> >    identical to what is listed in the pkgbase section.
> 
> That shouldn't be the case. What package were you looking at that shows
> this in the .AURINFO?  The goal is that pkgbase section provides the
> bulk of the metadata -- the individual pkgname sections are only
> overrides and supplements. The GetMergedPackage def in the python parser
> illustrates how the base and "overlay" create each output package.

Nevermind this -- I found cases where this happens. Fixed locally, just
need to write some regression tests.


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