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

[Ivan Kanak]

This is already there for hg. All you need is to define
_hgroot and _hgrepo variables in the PKGBUILD.

eg.: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/smem-hg/PKGBUILD

Other than that, I think it'd be nice.



On 4 July 2011 19:43, <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> Sébastien Luttringer
> www.seblu.net
>
>
>
>


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