On 05/07/11 02:43, [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?
Just to catch you up on work that has already been done here:
The start of a wiki page to formulate ideas on the VCS overhaul:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Makepkg_VCS_overhaul
Two patches that do most of this work already:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-November/012017.html
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-November/012018.html
And looking at that thread, I promised to review those when less busy
and never actually got there. I still do have them flagged on my patch
queue...
Also, this is something that I think would be good to target for our
pacman-4.0 release if people are willing to do the work. Breaking VCS
PKGBUILDs on a 4.0 release seems better idea than on a 4.1 release.
Allan
