[csw-maintainers] gar tip

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Sun Jun 26 04:46:20 CEST 2011


Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Sat Jun 25 21:26:15 -0400 2011:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > and it will populate the template's version field too. Beyond that (not
> > yet implemented), what would you think about populating the template
> > even further, by simply passing the upstream URL to newpkg?
> >
> >  mgar newpkg http://foo.org/files/bla-1.2.3.tar.gz
> >
> 
> that sounds pretty nice!
> 
> 
> as long as you allowed an override for name, because some of the
> software archive filenames are pretty silly :-/

Agreed.  This might be something best handled by real arguments.  -u
http://..., -n name, etc?

The idea is great though!

Thanks
-Ben
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