[arch-general] PKGBUILD.proto improvements

[Rogutės Sparnuotos]

C Anthony Risinger (2011-07-21 16:42):
> ... the motivation of this message is to encourage adding some
> routines to the makepkg library, similar to msg/msg2/warning/etc, to
> handle development checkouts.  basically i see people using _gitroot
> and _gitname for different stuff ... namely _gitname.  i'd like to see
> a routine that pulls the repo to a known location so it doenst get
> blown away every update, and so the user doesnt have to manually
> manage this.  everyone does it differently, puts the repository in all
> sorts of different locations/etc, and it just isnt very pretty IMO.
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I am sure you didn't ask, but I use $SRCDEST/scm for this, do not define
sources=() and run this in build():
  cp -r "$SRCDEST/scm/$pkgname" "$srcdir/"

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