[aur-general] AUR 3.0.0 released

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 at 09:52:11, William Giokas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 09:28:15AM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 at 09:08:48, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> > > * Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> [2014-06-05 09:03:29 +0200]:
> > > > Note that this issue will vanish soon anyway since the next major AUR
> > > > release will provide Git repositories for all AUR packages. You will no
> > > > longer need to create source tarballs.
> > > 
> > > That sounds intresting! Is there some kind of specification or some
> > > more notes regarding this? I wonder how permissions/merges/etc. will
> > > be dealt with.
> > > 
> > 
> > Check [1] for some of the implementation details.
> 
> On top of that, looking directly at permissions, git only tracks the
> executable bit, so the only permissions that git knows of for regular
> files is 755 and 644.
> [...]

Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to suggest when saying that "this
issue will vanish soon anyway since the next major AUR release will
provide Git repositories for all AUR packages". Sorry for being vague.