Re: [arch-general] Independent arch field in sub packages? (Was: Re: [commitpkg] Some stylistic cleanup)

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@gmail.com> wrote:

At any rate, I think we'll have to retrieve sub package variables in the foreseeable future, when this gets implemented: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15955. It certainly looks tricky though, as the variables are overridden in package_*() functions which contain other commands as well.

Yeah, I had this problem with check_packages script. Here is the ugly hack I wrote to do it : http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=d455a0b2cd72cd...