On 11/2/24 5:49 PM, Robin Candau wrote:
> I haven't take a detailed look but, after a quick glance, the PKGBUILD looks
> generally good. Here are a few details I was able to spot:
>
> - "Previous Maintainer" should be listed as "Contributor" (e.g. `#
> Contributor: name <email>`) [1]
>
> - No reason to list the -bin variant of the `mongosh` package over the
> "regular" one in optional dependencies [2]. The former provides the latter
> already.
>
> - The source currently have a potentially conflicting / too generic name [3].
> You should rename it to avoid potential name conflicts with other (packages)
> sources (e.g. `$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/
> archive/refs/tags/r$pkgver.tar.gz`).
>

Yes, this has always been a git tag download curiosity. If you download from
the desktop, it provides the mongo-... prefix, but if you pull the release
from a build-script it comes in as simply ...

That is a welcomed solution.

> - Custom variables and functions should be prefixed with a underscore. So the
> `all-flag-vars()` & the `filter-flags()` functions [4][5] should be called
> `_all-flag-vars()` & `_filter-flags()` instead.
>
> - No need to `cd` to "${srcdir}" in the various functions (e.g. in [6]), every
> functions are already executed from that directory.
>
> - I would personally ensure installed binaries [7] are executable / have the
> correct permission mode by using `install -Dm 755` instead of `install -D`.

Thank you.

   I'll take care of all that in the -6 release. Just finished with the last
redundant std::move() patch - all 1300+ lines of it... I'm pleased with the
way it builds and works.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.