[aur-general] I need some help with nexuiz-data

Xyne xyne at archlinux.ca
Wed Sep 30 09:53:12 EDT 2009


> It looks like _pkgname in the PKGBUILD overrides a variable which is 
> internal to db-update and happens to have the same name.
> 
> Here are the relevant lines in /arch/db-update: 
> http://pastebin.com/f2b478ad - see my comments on each highlighted line 
> for what I believe is going on and causes it to fail.
> 
> I would suggest losing the _pkgname in the PKGBUILD, but there may be a 
> better and more universal solution.

Thanks. I really had no idea what the problem was based on the message.
I didn't even consider that it might be due to an overridden variable.

Namespace clutter... yet another reason to ditch bash PKGBUILDs :P


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