Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 04:32:15PM -0500, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > ah, i see. it's your decision, but maybe it would worth considering what > Gentoo and Frugalware does: just run a script from cron that extracts > urls from buildscripts, checks for missing downloaded source tarballs, > obtains them and you're done. > > http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=blob;f=t/srcmissing;hb=HEAD > > of course this src.tar.gz approach may have other benefits i don't see.. >
Don't only think of the for use by the main distro. There are plenty of people hosting a small custom repo that does not warrant such a cron job. Allan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
