[aur-general] package splitting

[T. Fischer]

Leonidas,

many thanks for the quick response!

well the reason for 1) is simple... lazyness ;) its just more convenient for me that way.
I am just not sure if that is against any recommendations or just a bad way doing it in the given example?
Afaiu I should better create 3 packages instead of package splitting, right?

> I had to decypher a bit on what you meant by bug but I think I got it.
> The pkgdesc field on split packages is ignored on the web ui and picking
> the first one (?) - right?

I am very sorry that I had described it not good enough.. but.. yes you exactly got it! :)
Thanks will do so..

Cheers
Thomas



Am 29.08.22 um 16:27 schrieb Leonidas Spyropoulos via aur-general:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On 29/08/2022 15:34, Thomas via aur-general wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have 2 questions:
>>
>> 1) when is it allowed and / or good practice to split multiple
>> packages by 1 PKGBUILD?
>> For example I have created a package which pulls 3 debian packages and
>> creates 3 Arch packages from it.
>> I want to do that in 1 PKGBUILD by package splitting. Is that a good
>> idea or should this avoided (if so why..)?
> Simple answer - when it makes sense. On the example you describe above I
> can't see a reason why 3 different packages (which would end up in 3
> different packages in Arch Linux) would derive from one PKGBUILD. What's
> the reasoning for doing that instead of 3 different PKGBUILDs?
>>
>> 2) I found a bug in package splitting regarding the variable "pkgdesc"
>> - when in AUR: it simply gets ignored when used in package_<pkgname>
>> functions.
>>
>> Example:
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-libs-git
>> -> Line 220:
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=systemd-git#n220
>>
>> It should work though according to:
>> https://archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html#_package_splitting
>>
>> It seems to work when in the regular package database - which is using
>> the same PKGBUILD as the AUR ofc:
>> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/systemd-libs/
>>
>> -> Is this the right place to report an issue like that?
> 
> I had to decypher a bit on what you meant by bug but I think I got it.
> The pkgdesc field on split packages is ignored on the web ui and picking
> the first one (?) - right?
> If yes then please report as an issue at
> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/issues
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Leonidas
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