26 Nov
2019
26 Nov
'19
4:50 a.m.
On 16/11/19 12:32 am, Eli Schwartz wrote:
This value is needed for reproducible builds. The reason is because $BUILDDIR changes its behavior depending on whether it is the same as $startdir, and the result is that we cannot know whether $srcdir (the path that is potentially embedded into the final package) is actually "$BUILDDIR/src" or "$BUILDDIR/$pkgbase/src".
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> ---
v2: add documentation and bump the format version. I went with '2' rather than require a pre-release bump to get a 'real number' which we might forget, so if anything else gets added in the current patch release cycle (unlikely?) we can just skip the bumping.
Ack. A