[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Integrate versionpkg into makepkg

[Dan McGee]

On 10/29/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/10/29, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> > On 10/29/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/27/07, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
> > > > for darcs and git, you could use curl to determine the last update of
> > > > the repo. they will be still ugly (not as nice as git-describe is), but
> > > > at least it will show when the master branch is updated
> > > >
> > > > like:
> > > >
> > > > date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S --date '`curl -I $url/HEAD 2>&1|sed -n '/^Last-Modified/s/^[^:]*: //p'`'
> > > >
> > > > and
> > > >
> > > > lynx -source -dump $url/_darcs/inventory|grep ']'|sed -n 's/.*\*\(.*\)\]./\1/;$ p'
> > >
> > > Doesn't this require a web interface though? I guess we're already
> > > pinned to some sort of web interface, but I'm just thinking outloud.
> > > Is there a use-case where a darcs or git repo would NOT be HTTP
> > > accessible?
> >
> > Well if I use a git:// address in my PKGBUILD, then yeah, this method screws us.
> >
> > Did we really think the git tools wouldn't do there job? The only
> > reason I didn't do this before is because I was just accepting it the
> > way it currently works for versionpkg, although now might be the time
> > to make this change.
> >
> > The following will take ANY GIT repo url (local FS, http://, git://,
> > etc) and produce a nice pretty version name for you.
> >
> > git-ls-remote $_gitroot $_gitname | git-describe
> >
> > Example:
> > $git ls remote git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git master | git-describe
> > v3.0.0-497-g014306e
> >
> > Now that wasn't too hard, now was it? The only problem is that
> > git-describe uses '-' characters in its version. Do we allow this, or
> > is that reserved as a seperator for the pkgrel? I know there are some
> > funny parsing issues we have to make sure we do right.
>
> I think '-' should not be allowed. It can be replaced with '_'.

I did forget to note as well- you have to have a local copy of the
repo before you can run git-describe, so that may rule its usage out.

-Dan