Git Templates for makepkg-template

This repository collects templates for pacman's makepkg-template capturing most of the VCS package guidelines from the Arch Linux Wiki. They will

1. add git as a make dependency,
2. care for the built package to provide and conflict with its non-git variant and
3. clone $url as a package source, to be placed into the $srcdir as $pkgname, without its -git suffix.

• These can be overwritten by setting $_giturl and $_gitname, respectively, before inputting the template.

4. Also, a pkgver function will be inserted. It uses tags if available and automatically fall back to counting revisions otherwise.

To use it, install this package, add a line like

# template input; name=git

to your PKGBUILD and process it with makepkg-template. See the PKGBUILD of git-makepkg-templates itself for an example.

Template variants

The components are available in different granularities.

• If you only need a pkgver function and care for sources and dependencies yourself, just include git-pkgver.

• To achieve the inverse and just get points (1) to (3) of the above list, use git-source.

• git-revcount provides even less and serves just a single line to generate a revision counting version. This should be prepended to version strings that are generated from information within the repository files, to clearly distinguish them from their non-git counterparts. Include it last in a relevant pkgver function, while the commands before finish up with a dot, omitting a trailing newline. For example, when the version is noted in a plain file called version, write

  pkgver() {
    cat version | tr "\n" "."
    # template input; name=git-revcount
  }

  It also does not append a newline, so after it, you may add further information, like branches, experimental state or similar.

• The git template provides everything combined.