On Mon 02 Aug 2010 17:03 +0200, vlad 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? Yes. It's open to anybody. Just subscribe first.
