On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:49:11AM -0400, Loui Chang wrote: > 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. Hehe, that's why I did it. I wanted to give this a push. > You should submit it to the pacman-dev list and/or the pacman bug > tracker. Is pacman-dev public or open for non-devs? --