[Dev] [RFC] Adding DLAGENTS for git and other VCSs to makepkg.conf

[Nicolás Reynolds]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:43:55 -0400, Luke T.Shumaker <lukeshu at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Abstract
> 
>    Given Parabola's policy that sources be downloaded prior to running
>    a PKGBUILD file's build() function, we are creating multiple
>    boiler-plate SRCBUILD files that all check out a specific commit
>    from a version control system (VCS), and generate a tarball from it.
> 
>    Given that most VCSs are able to identify a commit just as
>    permanently as a URL, or more so, it makes sense to to add a
>    URL-handler ("DLAGENT") for URLs with a VCS SCM scheme, such as
>    "git://".

The concern is not only availability of a given checkout, but
self-hosting sources (at least GPL2). I think your propposal is awesome
but it would need to provide sources to `makepkg --allsource` for
instance.




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