Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD git remote branch issue

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2018-11-07 at 08:38 -0500, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
> As per the PKGBUILD(5) man page, use:
> 
> source=("git://example.com/reponame.git#FOO=BAR")
> 
> where FOO is either:
> - tag
> - branch
> - commit
> 
> and BAR is the corresponding revision you wish to check out (in this
> case the branch name is "gtk3")
> 
> So, #FOO=BAR would be #branch=gtk3

Thank you,

unfortunately it doesn't work.

[rocketmouse@archlinux claws-mail-gtk3-git]$ ls
PKGBUILD
[rocketmouse@archlinux claws-mail-gtk3-git]$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: claws-mail-gtk3-git 3.17.0-1 (Wed 07 Nov 2018 03:27:22 PM 
CET)
[snip]
==> Starting prepare()...
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Updated version: claws-mail-gtk3-git 3.16.0.r463.g04185a6e4-1
==> Starting build()...
^C

[rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ git clone git://git.claws-mail.org/claws.git
[snip]
[rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cd claws/
[rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ git fetch origin
[rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ git branch --track gtk3 origin/gtk3
Branch 'gtk3' set up to track remote branch 'gtk3' from 'origin'.
[rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ ./autogen.sh
[snip]
claws-mail 3.17.0git153
[snip]

Regards,
Ralf

pkgname=claws-mail-gtk3-git
pkgver=3.17.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='A GTK3 based e-mail client - git checkout'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL3')
url='https://www.claws-mail.org/'
depends=('gtk3' 'gnutls' 'startup-notification' 'enchant' 'gpgme' 'libetpan' 
'compface'
        'libsm' 'dbus-glib' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'desktop-file-utils')
makedepends=('git' 'spamassassin' 'bogofilter' 'valgrind'
        # dependencies for plugins
        'libgdata' 'libnotify' 'libcanberra' 'poppler-glib' 'pygtk' 'dillo'
        # deps to build the docs
        'docbook-utils' 'texlive-core')
optdepends=('python2:           needed for some tools and python plugin'
        'perl:              needed for some tools and perl plugin'
        'spamassassin:      adds support for spamfiltering'
        'bogofilter:        adds support for spamfiltering'
        'libnotify:         for notification plugin'
        'libcanberra:       for notification plugin'
        'dbus:              for notification plugin'
        'libxml2:           for rssyl plugins'
        'curl:              for vcalendar, rssyl and spamreport plugins'
        'libarchive:        for archive plugin and various other plugins'
        'libytnef:          for tnef_parse plugin'
        'libgdata:          for gdata plugin'
        'poppler-glib:      for pdf viewer plugin'
        'ghostscript:       for pdf viewer plugin'
        'dillo:             for html viewer plugin')
replaces=('sylpheed-claws' 'claws-mail-extra-plugins')
conflicts=('claws-mail-extra-plugins' 'claws-mail')
provides=('claws' 'claws-mail')
source=('claws-mail::git://git.claws-mail.org/claws.git#branch=gtk3')
sha256sums=('SKIP')

pkgver() {
        cd claws-mail/

        if GITTAG="$(git describe --abbrev=0 --tags 2>/dev/null)"; then
                printf '%s.r%s.g%s' \
                        "$(sed -e "s/^${pkgname%%-git}//" -e 
's/^[-_/a-zA-Z]\+//' -e 's/[-_+]/./g' <<< ${GITTAG})" \
                        "$(git rev-list --count ${GITTAG}..)" \
                        "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
        else
                printf '0.r%s.g%s' \
                        "$(git rev-list --count master)" \
                        "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
        fi
}

prepare() {
        cd claws-mail/

        # fixes for python2
        sed -i 's@^#!.*python.*@#!/usr/bin/python2@' tools/*.py
        git update-index --assume-unchanged tools/*.py
}

build() {
        cd claws-mail/

        # run autogen without options - it runs ./configure for us, but we need 
to fix python first
        NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh

        # fixes for python2
        export PYTHON="/usr/bin/python2"
        sed -i 's:python -c:python2 -c:g' configure

        # add --enable-alternate-addressbook to the options to use the
        # new/alternate address book
        # do not forget to add claws-contacts to the dependencies then
        ./configure \
                --build=$HOSTTYPE-arch-linux-gnu \
                --prefix=/usr \
                --disable-jpilot \
                --disable-maintainer-mode \
                --disable-manual \
                --disable-static \
                --enable-bogofilter-plugin \
                --enable-crash-dialog \
                --enable-enchant \
                --enable-gnutls \
                #--enable-gtk3 \
                --enable-ldap \
                --enable-pgpmime-plugin \
                --enable-silent-rules \
                --enable-spamassassin-plugin
                #--help
        make

        # build extra tools
        cd tools/
        make
}

package() {
        cd claws-mail/

        make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install

        # install extra tools
        # all executables and .conf files ; only top directory
        cd tools
        for FILE in $(find -maxdepth 1 -type f -and -perm /111 -or -name 
'*.conf'); do
                install -D -m0755 ${FILE} 
"${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/claws-mail/tools/${FILE}
        done
}