[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Add flag for printing SRCINFO to stdout

[Allan McRae]

On 24/05/15 10:42, Doug Newgard wrote:
> On Sun, 24 May 2015 08:02:55 +1000
> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 24/05/15 07:46, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
>>> ---
>>>  scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 9 ++++++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>
>> It would be great if there was a use case described in the commit
>> message...   I am not adding more options without justification (or
>> documentation).
>>
>> A
> 
> The AUR requires a .SRCINFO file along with the PKGBUILD. Since AUR 4.0 will be
> directly git pushes instead of using source tarballs, there needs to be a way
> to generate the .SRCINFO files without having to make the source tarball then
> extract it. Currently, this is mostly done with mksrcinfo from
> pkgbuild-introspection from falconindy.
> 

Out of interest, will everyone need to commit a .SRCINFO file alongside
the PKGBUILD?

A