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antony

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Registered: 2011-07-14

Posts: 43

rsync in PKGBUILD sources

I am trying to write a PKGBUILD for which the sources are not available as a single tarball/zip/etc., but can be downloaded (e.g.) using rsync -avz.  While an URI of rsync:// in the sources array is understood, it does not trigger archive (-a) mode, which is necessary to recursively download all the files.
I guess I could just download everything in prepare() and compare the checksums manually, but perhaps there is a better way to cover this case in PKGBUILDs?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: rsync in PKGBUILD sources

Is there no git/svn/hg source for this?  What is the project?

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antony

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Registered: 2011-07-14

Posts: 43

Re: rsync in PKGBUILD sources

f2c, here: http://netlib.org/f2c/src/ (and no, libf2c.zip doesn't contain the same files).
The current AUR PKGBUILD reuses an old zip from some personal project and I'm trying to improve that.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: rsync in PKGBUILD sources

You could always ask to add -a to the default rsync command. I don't know why it's not part of the default already.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: rsync in PKGBUILD sources

AFAIK you could set DLAGENT in your PKGBUILD and it would take precedence over the makepkg.conf settings. This is not documented, nor have I tried it out myself - it's just a possible workaround while you wait for the response to the feature request recommended by Scimmia.