On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:03 AM, vlad <vla@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Public, but you have to sign up. -Dan
