This is already there for hg. All you need is to define _hgroot and _hgrepo variables in the PKGBUILD.
eg.: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/smem-hg/PKGBUILD Other than that, I think it'd be nice. On 4 July 2011 19:43, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would add a new feature in makepkg, which allow downloading of > git/hg/cvs/etc content directly by makepkg. This feature can be great > for packages in AUR. We have a lot of -git packages which can use this > to escape to do it manually each time. > > I looked over the code and there is a design choice to make. > Currently sources url is [filename::]http://toto. If we want to know > which kind of url is (regular / git / hg) we need to have this > information in PKGBUILD because git can download from http/ftp/git > protocol. > > We can have many array in PKGBUILD as > source=("http://toto";) > gitsouce=("git://toto.git) > hgsource=("http://otot.hg) > > or have a more complex url syntax like > [type:::][filename::]http://toto where type can be git/hg/cvs/etc. > > What do you think? > > -- > Sébastien Luttringer > www.seblu.net > > > > -- Ivan c00kiemon5ter V Kanakarakis LiknedIn Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/c00kiemon5ter> • Personal Blog<http://c00kiemon5ter.github.com/> • Code Repository <http://github.com/c00kiemon5ter>
