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

[Doug Newgard]

On Sun, 24 May 2015 22:31:02 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> 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

Yes. The server rejects any push that does not include a .SRCINFO file in each
and every commit.

Doug