[arch-general] Independent arch field in sub packages? (Was: Re: [commitpkg] Some stylistic cleanup)

[Xavier]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At any rate, I think we'll have to retrieve sub package variables in the
> foreseeable future, when this gets implemented:
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15955. It certainly looks tricky though, as
> the variables are overridden in package_*() functions which contain other
> commands as well.
>

Yeah, I had this problem with check_packages script.
Here is the ugly hack I wrote to do it :
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=d455a0b2cd72cd08b7b6cde878a29841f77a041e