[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/3] makepkg: Alternate implementation of VCS URLs in sources array.

[Allan McRae]

On 28/08/12 10:17, Luke T.Shumaker wrote:
> Another effect of the Allan's current implementation is that adding
> another scheme requires modification to makepkg, event if it is just
> to pass it to DLAGENTS. I'd argue that even if we have the special
> cases, the correct behavior would be to have download_file (DLAGENTS)
> as a fallback, instead of only tripping on 'ftp|http|https|rsync|scp'.

Fix on its way.

> Further, a use case I see is a user putting some funky stuff in
> DLAGENTS to either use an offline cache, or do some network stuff to
> deal with a contrived network setup.

This is the only thing I think needs dealt with... maybe...  Can you
give a concrete example?

Thanks,
Allan