[pacman-dev] Download sources from git/hg/etc

[seblu at seblu.net]

Hello,

I would add a new feature in makepkg, which allow downloading of
git/hg/cvs/etc content directly by makepkg. This feature can be great
for packages in AUR. We have a lot of -git packages which can use this
to escape to do it manually each time.

I looked over the code and there is a design choice to make.
Currently sources url is [filename::]http://toto. If we want to know
which kind of url is (regular / git / hg) we need to have this
information in PKGBUILD because git can download from http/ftp/git
protocol.

We can have many array in PKGBUILD as
source=("http://toto")
gitsouce=("git://toto.git)
hgsource=("http://otot.hg)

or have a more complex url syntax like
[type:::][filename::]http://toto where type can be git/hg/cvs/etc.

What do you think?

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Sébastien Luttringer
www.seblu.net