On Tue 27 Jul 2010 15:25 +0200, vlad wrote: > Here is a patch against makepkg from git which introduces a new function > "write_srcinfo()". This generates a file .SRCINFO - like the .PKGINFO > one - when "makepkg --source" is run and then it is added to the src.tar.gz > archive. > I think having such a file is an important step for getting split > packages to the AUR. It is also useful for third party applications. > Since this file is generated during making the source archive, there > is no need for parsing/sourcing the PKGBUILD everytime meta infos are > needed afterwards. > This is also a way of standardizing the source archive. > > .SRCINFO looks like (generated for gcc from core): Nice. :D This is something that I had been brainstorming too. You should submit it to the pacman-dev list and/or the pacman bug tracker.
