I have no knowledge of it and have never used it On 1/9/07, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2007/1/6, Dan McGee :

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I've noticed the makeworld script is in the pacman CVS, and I've never used the program in my life. Does anyone still use this, and is it worth updating? This, to me, seems to almost violate the KISS principle and should be spun off into another package (like srcpac is).

Any thoughts appreciated.

I don't use it. What's its purpose? May be part of pacman-utils package, as you suggested in another message.

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2007/1/10, Robert Howard :

makeworld is very useful if you wish to build and entire ABS tree. I've used it once or twice, but it seems more useful if you maintain lots of packages.

You mean it can be used to rebuild all /var/abs/local (or whatever your local repo is)? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:37:23 -0600 "Aaron Griffin" wrote:

On 1/6/07, Dan McGee wrote:

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This, to me, seems to almost violate the KISS principle and should be spun off into another package (like srcpac is).

Hmm, I may agree. It appears, at first glance, that it really just does a "find . -name PKGBUILD" and cd's and runs makepkg....

I could see it being useful, but I've never used it... do any of the developers (the only people I could see using it) actually use this?

The old porters used to use it. Plus it's nice for building base when bootstrapping a new arch, etc. One of the things it does is not build packages that have already been built, so you can build a category by running it multiple times (because each level of deps is built per run). Jason