On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 11:29:07AM -0400, member graysky wrote: > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Lukas Fleischer > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Thanks, I get it. This definitely seems like something makepkg should > > > detect and handle automatically Are the .AURINFO files here to stay? > > > > Note that .AURINFO functionality will not be added to pacman/makepkg, > > unless the format is extended to work with split packages and all corner > > cases that we do not care about in the AUR. > > > > The idea is to start with an external tool to post process source > > packages and then extend this tool, as well as the underlying .AURINFO > > format, until we get something that is suitable for integration with > > makepkg. > > > > OK. I haven't tested this with split packages, but the attached patch > works with a non-split one for those too lazy to manually make the modified > src.tar.gz :p
Not sure if you got me wrong but I was talking about a tool that *generates* .AURINFO files (e.g. by sourcing PKGBUILDs and printing the values of variables), not about a tool that just automates the inclusion of a handcrafted file. Also, while I disagree that using the sources array is the right place to add this kind of metadata, I agree that this should not be implemented in makepkg(8) until it is extended, renamed, reviewed and acknowledged by the pacman development team.
