On 2/19/19 4:19 PM, Tinu Weber wrote:
Author of remakepkg here. I think that adding such functionality to pacman would be a bit... backwards.
remakepkg invalidates .BUILDINFO and breaks reproducible builds as far as i can tell.
The semantics of .BUILDINFO in the context of remakepkg were unclear to me, so I chose to simply ignore it. Reproducible builds were not taken into account, so it's indeed very likely that it breaks that.
You could hotpatch it, but that's dirty. :P
In the end, remakepkg is a hack. But the underlying concept itself is already a hack, so I'm not feeling too bad, to be honest :-)
(that being said, I'm obviously open for discussing suggestions)
I'm sure it's useful, but as you acknowledged yourself it's kinda unfit for pacman/makepkg inclusion. I don't have an issue with the tool itself as far as this discussion goes :)
Best, Tinu
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