On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Miklos Vajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:07:45PM -0500, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This supplements the --source option and does nearly the same thing, except >> downloaded source files are included in the archive as well. >> >> This is mainly an RFC patch and interested parties are encouraged to >> comment. I was also planning on making a patch for adding the package/ >> prefix to the archived files, but apparently no archive program makes this >> easy to do with is just plain stupid. If someone knows how without creating >> a temporary dir and moving files there, let me know. > > i don't want to flame or anything, but what's the purpose of this? is > there any program that would make use of such an archive? except that if > you put it out to http then broken out files are browsable, while if you > tar it up (like the rpm guys do with srpm) then the user has to download > the whole source package, even if he/she is only interested in the > buildscript or patches.
Yes there is use for this- to help people using makepkg comply with the GPL and providing source and the necessary tools to build it when they provide binary packages. I didn't remove the --source option on purpose; you can still generate a src.tar.gz package with the minimal files needed and none of the downloaded source. -Dan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
