[aur-general] About PKGBUILD of the automatic nightly builds

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:02:00AM +0800, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
> 2011/12/20 Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>:
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:40:57AM +0800, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
> >> Recently,I was attracted by the songbird and nightingage media player
> >> based on Mozilla Tech.And I noticed these to nightly build PKGBUILD in
> >> AUR whose pkgver is part of a shell command string,and I want to do
> >> something to make that pkgver recognised by the AUR interface.
> >>
> >> Anyone who can tell me how to write a automatic nightly build
> >> PKGBUILD?Or,is there any standard on nightly build PKGBUILD?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> bin32-songbird-nightly:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44366
> >> songbird-nightly-bin:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32932
> >
> > Short answer: Please don't do this sort of magical garbage. As an AUR
> > helper author, I send apples full of razor blades to people who do this.
> >
> > Long answer: If you insist, you can probably fool the AUR with a
> > redefinition, in the same way that split packages are done, e.g.
> >
> > pkgver=2011.12.19
> > : && pkgver=$(<<<cat sed statement)
> >
> > The first definition of the pkgver will still be the one that remains as
> > the AUR's recognized version, though.
> >
> > dave
> I under stand what you saying,I found these orphaned PKGBIULDs in AUR
> with what your said magical garbage and made the AUR looks aweful.So I
> adopted them and trying to correct that,but I didn't know what exaclty
> should be done to these nightly build kind of PKGBUILD whith automatic
> detecting pkgver tricks,that why this mail came to the list?
> 
> I will update them with the removing of all that tricks.

Got it -- I misunderstood your intentions. Your efforts are much appreciated!

d