[Dev] Parabola-friendly implementation of VCS urls for PKGBUILDs
Luke T.Shumaker
lukeshu at sbcglobal.net
Sat Aug 25 17:55:47 GMT 2012
A while back I started working on a feature to add VCS url
capabilities to makepkg, based on a whitepaper I published on this
list.
https://gitorious.org/parabola/pacman/commits/lukeshu-fix
Shortly after I began, the upstream pacman devs started working on a
similar feature. Their implementation contains good code--ideally I'd
replace my download_$VCS() methods with theirs (we even chose the same
function names, how 'bout that!).
However, the general design of our implementations differ. I made
minimal modifications to makepkg itself, and added an external
`vcsget` tool that spits out tarballs. I believe that mine is better
design.
This is not the important part; their design does not allow for
checking source integrity--an important requirement for Parabola.
So, it'd be awesome if you guys would test my version. It's available
as 'pacman-lukeshu' from the [~lukeshu] repo.
~ Luke Shumaker
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