On 25 Feb 2008 22:04, Xavier wrote:
IIRC something like this was proposed by Alessio AKA mOLOk. You can find it in ML archives or bugtracker.
Right, you referenced everything there : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8187
About Mark's proposal, that doesn't seem like the cleanest way. I mean, calling makepkg from a PKGBUILD sounds a bit ugly. Probably cleaner implementations involve hacking or patching of makepkg :)
I posted to ping the issue of split packages and the main point of my current suggestion is that it indeed does *not* require any patching of makepkg meaning I can, and am, using the method right now to produce split packages via an unpatched makepkg, albeit in a crude and perhaps ugly manner. The only real world example in actual use, that I am aware of, is the KDEmod method and that requires a fairly invasive 9k patch that seems difficult to forward port to later versions of makepkg. This bothers me and is why I looked into another method to achieve at least simple split packages (*-doc and *-dev) out from the main package. To my surprise I found the absolute simplest recursive approach actually seems to work, for my immediate needs. For the record here again is a snippet from my current kde-svn build system... build() { ... do regular stuff to build qt-copy build_doc } build_doc(){ mv $pkgdir $pkgdir.orig && mkdir $pkgdir || return 1 mkdir -p $pkgdir/{usr/bin,usr/share/doc} mv $pkgdir.orig/usr/share/doc/* $pkgdir/usr/share/doc mv $pkgdir.orig/usr/bin/qtdemo $pkgdir/usr/bin cd $startdir makepkg --asroot -R -p PKGBUILD.doc rm -rf $pkgdir mv $pkgdir.orig $pkgdir cd $srcdir/$_pkgfqn } # cat qt-copy/PKGBUILD.doc pkgname=qt-copy-doc pkgver=4.3.3 pkgrel=20080225 pkgdesc="The Qt Gui Toolkit Documentation" arch=(any) url=http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt _pkgfqn=qt-x11-opensource-src-$pkgver depends=("qt>=$pkgver") source=(ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/$_pkgfqn.tar.gz) license=(GPL) replaces=(qt-doc) provides=(qt-doc) conflicts=(qt-doc) --markc