[arch-ports] PKGBUILD and package release thoughts

[ganja.guru]

I think Xentac's suggestion is simple enough..but do we really need to 
have the original "pkgrel" variable when we have the new pkgrel_i686 and 
pkgrel_amd64? What purpose does the original "pkgrel" variable serve 
when the final package release number does not depend on it?

ganja_guru


Jason Chu wrote:
> All your questions should be answered here:
>
> http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-ports/2006-February/000112.html
>
> Both the build() and any source=() changes can happen with [ ] style
> testing.  This is bash after all ;)
>
> Jason
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 04:46:28PM -0800, eliott at cactuswax.net wrote:
>   
>> I appreciate the goal of joining multiple architectures into a single
>> pkgbuild, but I haven't heard much (at least that I remember) lately about
>> how pkgbuilds with different build requirements based on architecture are
>> going to be handled.
>>
>> Are there going to be seperate "build" definitions, based upon architecture?
>> i686_build()
>> ppc_build()
>>
>> or is there going to be some type of variable testing inside a single
>> build defintion...
>> build() {
>>  if [ $ARCHx = "i696x" ]; then
>>     <custom stuff here>
>>  fi
>> }
>>
>> Also, would there be seperate file sections? If one architecture requires
>> a patch that another one doesn't, are all files fetched for build
>> regardless?
>>
>> I suppose I am saying that a little more background into how the overall
>> structure is going to work, may help make informed opinions about
>> versioning conventions.
>>
>> I apologize if I missed the discussion of the above, and this has already
>> been covered.
>>
>>
>>