This is the start of what will be a makepkg test suite. It shows a (somewhat robust?) method of parsing splitpkg overrides so will be of use when updating db-scripts to handle splitpkg's with different arch/pkgrel/pkgver's (which can be overrided in pacman-git now). It extracts the "package_foo()" function with a sed statements that assumes that it starts at the start of the line and the closing "}" is the only thing on its line (could be made more robust...). Then is extracts the various variables using a grep. It can handle the following syntax: foo=1 foo=STRING foo="ABC DEF" for=('a' 'b' \ 'c' ) which is basically everything... Any comments on how to improve this are welcome. Allan #!/bin/bash splitpkg_overrides=('pkgver' 'pkgrel' 'pkgdesc' 'arch' 'license' 'groups' \ 'depends' 'optdepends' 'provides' 'conflicts' 'replaces' \ 'backup' 'options' 'install' 'changelog') readonly -a splitpkg_overrides backup_package_variables() { for var in ${splitpkg_overrides[@]}; do indirect="${var}_backup" eval "${indirect}=(\"\${$var[@]}\")" done } restore_package_variables() { for var in ${splitpkg_overrides[@]}; do indirect="${var}_backup" if [[ -n ${!indirect} ]]; then eval "${var}=(\"\${$indirect[@]}\")" else unset ${var} fi done } parse_splitpkg_overrides() { if grep -q "package_$1()" PKGBUILD; then pkgfunc=$(sed -n "/^package_$1\(\)/,/^}/p" PKGBUILD) for var in ${splitpkg_overrides[@]}; do eval $(echo $pkgfunc | grep -Eo "$var=(\"[^)]*\"|\([^)]*\)|[^ ]*)") done fi } ## # Checks if all packages are created - does not work yet... :P ## pkg_exists() { # get package arch if [[ $arch != "any" ]]; then arch=$CARCH fi for pkg in ${pkgname[@]}; do # check for package specific overrides backup_package_variables parse_splitpkg_overrides $pkg echo $pkg-$pkgver-$pkgrel-$arch$PKGEXT restore_package_variables done } source /etc/makepkg.conf source PKGBUILD pkg_exists