2008/6/4 Mark Constable <
markc@renta.net>:
On 2008-06-04, Travis Willard wrote:
> Thirdly, let's assume we do agree that having PREFIX= in makepkg.conf
> is a good idea. Then, someone has to go through our mountain of
> PKGBUILDs and update them - as you said, it's not as simple as a sed
> instruction, so somebody DOES have to do all that work, and I can bet
> you dollars to donuts it's not going to be any of the Archlinux devs.
On the "it could be useful" side, I'm not sure the original
suggestion included the need to change the current PKGBUILDs,
just that it could be a useful aid for some packagers.
--markc
The only remaining thing I could just figure out is to use git to manage the ABS tree, generate branches for every OS it's being ported, and provide monthly sets of patches providing OS specific changes that don't affect ArchLinux at all (and AL devel don't have to take any action on them if they don't want).
All this monthly set patches can be managed with tags.
By the way, I don't eat donuts, but nice joke :-D