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zebulon

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Registered: 2008-10-20

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Query regarding VCS PKGBUILDs

Hi,

I have a question regarding the VCS PKGBUILDs, in particular Mercurial ones. I saw on the prototypes that there is an explicit checkout of a hg branch using hg clone in the build() section. However, recently many authors do not include this. For instance: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clay- … g/PKGBUILD or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/iowo … g/PKGBUILD. How does that work? Is it a new standard?

Thanks for your insights.

Allan

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Re: Query regarding VCS PKGBUILDs

It turns out that makepkg is really shit at handling VCS packages...

In the hg case, it does a full checkout to get the up to date pkgver anyway so there is no need to do it again.

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zebulon

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Re: Query regarding VCS PKGBUILDs

Thanks. So it does the checkout because it detects some keywords, such as _hgroot and _hgrepo? Is that the way it works?

Allan

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Re: Query regarding VCS PKGBUILDs

Yes.  It detects the variables listed in the PKGBUILD man page and goes into VCS mode.

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zebulon

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Re: Query regarding VCS PKGBUILDs

Thanks. Does that mean that the prototypes that come in pacman package are obsolete (they specifically checkout/clone the VCS repository)?