On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Cedric Staniewski wrote:

The current behaviour, which is placing source packages in PKGDEST if SRCPKGDEST is not set, is inconsistent with {SRC,PKG}DEST handling and there is no real advantage in doing so. Other than preserving backward compatibility and the way it has worked for 2-3 years...

I don't have a super strong opinion, but to pretend like this isn't on purpose is not true at all.

---  doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt |    4 ++--  scripts/makepkg.sh.in  |    2 +-  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt index 020804c..6130249 100644 --- a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt +++ b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt @@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ Options

 **SRCPKGDEST=**"/path/to/folder"::        If this value is not set, source package files will be stored in -       PKGDEST. Many people like to keep all source package files in -       a central location for easy cleanup, so this path can be set here. +       in the current directory. Many people like to keep all source package files +       in a central location for easy cleanup, so this path can be set here.

 **PACKAGER=**"John Doe "::        This value is used when querying a package to see who was the builder. diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in index 0a90b89..493c962 100644 --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -1744,7 +1744,7 @@ if [[ ! -w $SRCDEST ]] ; then  fi

 SRCPKGDEST=${_SRCPKGDEST:-$SRCPKGDEST} -SRCPKGDEST=${SRCPKGDEST:-$PKGDEST} #default to $PKGDEST if undefined +SRCPKGDEST=${SRCPKGDEST:-$startdir} #default to $startdir if undefined

 if (( HOLDVER )) && [[ -n $FORCE_VER ]]; then -- 1.7.4