[arch-dev-public] [Patch] makechrootpkg: fixed support for splitted package

[Allan McRae]

Eric Bélanger wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>   
>> Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Eric Bélanger<snowmaniscool at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Here (inline and attached) are a couple of patches for makechrootpkg.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Here's a second patch.  It fixes the copying of the package from the
>>> chroot when the pkgver or pkgrel are different (e.g. device-mapper &
>>> lvm2) :
>>>
>>>       
>> Be careful there.... man PKGBUILD:
>>
>> All options and directives for the split packages default to the global
>> values given within the PKGBUILD. However, some of these can be
>> overridden within each split package’s packaging function. The
>> following variables can be overridden: pkgdesc, license, groups,
>> depends, optdepends, provides, conflicts, replaces, backup, options and
>> install.
>>
>> So overriding pkgver and pkgrel may not work as expected.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks for the warning, I wasn't aware about that.  From the package's
> name and the .PKGINFO it seems to work, at least for different pkgver.
> However, I haven't tested the packages yet.
>   

My suspicion is that it will work when the package with the different 
pkgver/pkgrel is last.  makepkg just does not revert those variables 
after exiting the package function. 

Are there other use cases like this?  That functionality could be added...

Allan