[aur-general] Convention question

[Chris Brannon]

Stephen Weinberg wrote:
> That makes sense. I need to change my package. But the pkgbuild I
> pointed to just deletes the main checkout.
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/abiword-svn/abiword-svn/PKGBUILD
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/abiword-svn/abiword-svn/PKGBUILD

That package should probably be changed.
You can't necessarily rely on PKGBUILDs from the AUR for your examples.
I'd say that you are better off sticking with the prototypes in
/usr/share/pacman.  The wiki also contains some great pages, when you
need further clarification.
You might find the following useful:
<http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines>

-- Chris