[pacman-dev] Source Package Repositories

[Allan McRae]

On 01/09/15 19:51, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> On mar., 2015-09-01 at 15:43 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 01/09/15 11:26, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 07:36 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>> On 14/08/15 05:44, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 21:36 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>>> I understand the need of getting the source of the package I
>>> installed
>>> locally, but what is the pros of having special source packages in
>>> order to replace ABS, instead of a regular package putting source
>>> files
>>> in a directory like /usr/src/pacman/$pkgname/$pkgver?
>>
>> That requires installing the binary package to get the sources.
>>
> If we don't depend on the binary package in the source package, I don't
> see why.

I got confused by your wording... "instead of a regular package putting
source files in"  Now I understand that you are suggesting a package
that only has files in /usr/src/pacman/$pkgname/$pkgver and not just
putting the files there in the binary package.

That is essentially no different to what I was proposing.  Except that
using the current source package layout (i.e. no root directory), we can
have the root path completely configurable.

The other advantage of keeping sources in a different repository type,
is that "pacman -S glibc" and "pacman -B glibc" will get glibc.  No need
to have different suffixes or adding repo prefixes.

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