[arch-dev-public] split packages (WAS: Re: Heimdal changes - moving sqlite to core?)

[Xavier]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Andreas Radke schrieb:
>>
>> just a small question: will the new makepkg with split support allow to
>> us to build for several repos(e.g. libs to core and documentation to
>> extra)?
>
> The problem is not makepkg. The problem is how we will integrate split
> packages support into our repository scripts. Do we have any idea about that
> already?
>
> Allan, you did some work on package splitting, do you have an example
> PKGBUILD that demonstrates how this will work?
>
>

I found an example there :
http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/splitpkg.html
A relevant thread is there :
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-December/007862.html
I checked that splitpkg.html is the same example as PKGBUILD-split.proto.

However, it seems allan's gitweb does not work anymore, allan broke it again!
http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/gitweb/gitweb.cgi