[arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Do not refer to $startdir/{src, pkg} in PKGBUILDs

[Allan McRae]

On 08/06/10 17:28, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> On Tue,  8 Jun 2010 13:18:17 +1000, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
>> PKGBUILDs should always use $srcdir and $pkgdir and their locations
>> are not guaranteed to be $startdir/src and $startdir/pkg respecitively.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>
>
> When will $startdir be removed? I just checked: 1022 packages are
> affected. (not a big deal though as they can changed on rebuilds)
>
> But I have seen packages which modify the .install script during build.
> For example to set the current kernel version for depmod. How could this be
> handled then? Or are .install scripts are now available under srcdir?
>

$startdir will not be removed.  The error printed for $startdir usage 
was always there so I did not change that.  For install files, once 3.4 
is released, you can put them in the source array without any issues and 
then adjust them in $srcdir.

This patch was mainly to check for $startdir/pkg which will not be the 
same as $pkgdir from 3.5 onwards (i.e. two releases away).  This is 
already true for split packages, but will become true for unsplit ones 
too.   A lot of packages are affected but we have been telling people 
not to use $startdir/pkg for more that a year, maybe even two years...

Allan