[arch-dev-public] libpng todo list

[Eric Bélanger]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Jan de Groot wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 21:43 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  > sudo checkpkg
>>>>>> Password:
>>>>>> 18,19c18,19
>>>>>> < usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7
>>>>>> < usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7.0.0
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  > usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8
>>>>>>  > usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8.0.0
>>>>>> usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8:   SONAME               libjpeg.so.8
>>>>>> usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8.0.0:   SONAME               libjpeg.so.8
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This should overlap a lot.  Do we want to do both at once?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that's a good thing to do. Could you build a todo list for
>>>>> libjpeg also?
>>>>
>>>> I haven't rsynced my packages in several weeks and I never do [community]
>>>> so
>>>> perhaps Pierre can do this for me...
>>>>
>>>>> BTW: checkpkg works as non-root also now, pacman -Sp works as non-root.
>>>>
>>>> Awesome.  It would be even better if it tried getting the package out of
>>>> the
>>>> pacman cache first.  Someone please implement it for me! :D
>>>>
>>>
>>> I tought I implemented it already:
>>>
>>> http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=61e8cd97fb01997859b135dc0741beff7911c6f5
>>>
>>> That commit should be in the last devtools release.
>>>
>>
>> That is $PKGDEST which is not necessary the pacman cache.
>>
>
> Yes. right. But it can be easily implemented. In checkpkg, get the
> pacman cache from pacman.conf with a:
>
> CacheDir=$(grep '^CacheDir=' /etc/pacman.conf | cut -d= -f2)
>

You might want/need to give it a default value:
CacheDir= /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
CacheDir=$(grep '^CacheDir=' /etc/pacman.conf | cut -d= -f2)


> then add another if check at the end of my above commit:
>
>  elif [ -f $CacheDir/$oldpkg ]; then
>  cp $CacheDir/$oldpkg .
>
> Feel free to test and make a patch.
>