Hi, There was no response on the pacman-dev list but someone here might find this potentially useful:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-January/010322.html It's written in Perl but it could easily be adapted to Python. It handles Bash variable interpolation and string substitutions so far. I'll add support for other PKGBUILD "tricks"as I come across them, e.g. setting dependencies by architecture. The post linked above includes simplified JSON output from the split kernel26 package. Regards, Xyne
