+1 for supporting split packages. Nice job! Cheers, Lance Chen
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I plan to do the next major AUR release by late May or June and I > thought this might be a good time to let people know what is going on > behind the scenes. > > AUR 3.0.0 will be able to read metadata from source packages. These > metadata will be read from a file called .AURINFO (contained in the > source tarball). Dave wrote several tools [1], including mkaurball which > can be used to automatically build a source tarball with metadata so you > don't need to worry about creating this file on your own. > > Having this information available means that: > > 1. We can drop the PKGBUILD parser from the AUR. The parser will still > be available in the upcoming release but it will be marked as > deprecated and a warning will be displayed whenever someone tries to > upload a source tarball without metadata. > > 2. We can implement other things that were blocked by the AUR PKGBUILD > parser being incomplete and inaccurate. Specifically, the next > release will support split packages. > > Things that are on our TODO list: > > * Test the new AUR code. The split package code is still experimental. > * Fix and extend the AUR RPC interface. > * Test Dave's pkgbuild-introspection. > * Move pkgbuild-introspection (or at least mkaurball) to [community]. > > It would also be nice to get metadata generation integrated into makepkg > so that people no longer need to install mkaurball to generate source > tarballs for the AUR. > > Regards, > Lukas > > [1] https://github.com/falconindy/pkgbuild-introspection
