[arch-dev-public] Merging dhclient and dhcp package

Daniel Isenmann daniel.isenmann at gmx.de
Sun Jan 17 07:33:55 EST 2010


On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:55:14 +0100
Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:23 +0100, Daniel Isenmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I don't know why this idea didn't came earlier to my mind, but the
> > dhclient and dhcp package share the same source file. Now that
> > pacman supports splitted packages this can be merged into one
> > PKGBUILD and build both packages at once. This should be really
> > easier than maintaining both packages from differents maintainer
> > like at the moment.
> > 
> > Any objections for doing this?
> > 
> >  Daniel
> 
> Do it.

I have made the PKGBUILD for the splitted package. Can I just upload
the packages with extrapkg in the dhcp trunk directory? What happens to
the existing dhclient package in the SVN, must I delete it before?

 Daniel


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