[arch-general] PKGBUILD question

[Jonathan Vasquez]

On Jan 7, 2012 7:37 AM, "Allan McRae" <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On 07/01/12 22:30, Corrado Primier wrote:
> > 2012/1/7 Don Juan <donjuansjiz at gmail.com>:
> >> The problem I have run into and can not seem to find info about or
something
> >> I have ever run into is that it seems bsdtar when extracting is making
the
> >> name as name_2.0.1-BETA1 and not making it name_2.0.1-beta1 and makepkg
> >> fails saying it can not find the proper file of name_2.0.1-beta1.
> >
> > There is a nice construct in bash (beware: version 4 only) which
> > allows you to make something uppercase with brace expansion.
> > Look at this:
> >
> > [bardo at antani ~]$ pkgver=2.0.1-beta1
> > [bardo at antani ~]$ echo ${pkgver^^}
> > 2.0.1-BETA1
> >
> > The only problem in your specific situation is the need to also change
> > '-' in '_'. That would require a double brace expansion, but I'm not
> > sure it is possible. If it is, it seems to be undocumented. The
> > cleanest way I could come up with is:
> >
> > $(sed 's/-/_/' <<<${pkgver^^})
> >
> > Not very nice, huh? :)
> >
>
> I'd just go for something like this:
>
> _pkgver=2.0.1-BETA1
> pkgver=2.0.1beta1
>
> No need for all that fancy stuff...
>
> Allan

Lol Allan. I'm also learning how to make my PKGBUILDs better and
learningfmore Bash scripting. So I'm reading the posts and its like I
completely forgot to go the simple route and declare two variables.