On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Xavier
Hello,
while pacman 3.2.0 release was quite good, makepkg one was a bit worse. I think the main cause is the lack of testing. I personally always use the devel versions of pacman and makepkg, but I use pacman daily, while I only use makepkg very irregularly.
Anyway, the 3.2.1 release is close now, and all known makepkg bugs were fixed : - fix download functions with weird URLs (FS#11076) - fix creation of source package with local files (FS#11149) - fix error when sourcing profile scripts (FS#11179) - perform case-insensitive checksum comparison (FS#11283)
For FS#11292 (handling multiple source files which have the same name), a new feature had to be introduced. it is now possible to use the filename of your choice for remote sources, like this : source=('filename::http://path/to/file') This allows to handle multiple source files with same name, and also to handle more nicely weird URLs like http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=6992.
pacman / makepkg 3.2.1 is in core now, so let's hope it received sufficient testing :)