On 05/25/2015 07:15 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Mon, 25 May 2015 17:19:07 -0700 > Kyle Terrien <kyleterr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 1. Is there any way to generate the .SRCINFO file without doing the >> tar/untar workaround? > > mksrcinfo from pkgbuild-introspection-git. You can easily use it to add it to > all commmits with git filter-branch --tree-filter
Wow! I didn't know about mksrcinfo, but I'm definitely using it now. And according to the manual, that git filter-branch command actually modifies every commit in the repo. I had no idea you could do that. Git never ceases to amaze me. >> 2. Why is .SRCINFO even needed? Why can't AUR parse the raw PKGBUILD? > > There are no decent bash parsers out there. To get real info, they would have > to be sourced/executed, which is a huge security risk. I wonder if Perl can parse it. I'll have to try a couple of experiments sometime. Thank you so much, --Kyle
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