AUR web interface

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FS#23219 - Allow viewing the pkgbuild, but no direct link

Attached to Project: AUR web interface
Opened by jackoneill (jackoneill) - Thursday, 10 March 2011, 12:27 GMT
Last edited by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Monday, 15 August 2011, 13:00 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend
Status Closed
Assigned To Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 1.8.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Hello,

Every now and then, some clueless user comes to irc complaining that makepkg couldn't find a file included in the source package -- because they downloaded only the pkgbuild.

It may help if the link labelled "PKGBUILD" lead to an html page which had the pkgbuild inside <pre> tags, with a big fat warning at the top - to download the tarball, not just the pkgbuild.
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Closed by  Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Monday, 15 August 2011, 13:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Saturday, 13 August 2011, 15:55 GMT
We're Arch Linux, not Windows. Users using the AUR should be aware of how PKGBUILDs and makepkg(1) work. Note that adding such a thing will also break a lot of (all?) AUR helpers (not that I insist on not breaking them - they actually shouldn't use the preview PKGBUILD at all).

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