[pacman-dev] makepkg Patch for consistancy

Jürgen Hötzel juergen at hoetzel.info
Thu Nov 16 17:18:26 EST 2006


On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 04:13:32PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:38:05 -0500
> > Daniel McGee <toofishes at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This patch implements two consistency issues I think are present in
> > > makepkg. Once again, use what you want, not trying to force a patch
> > > down your throat.
> >
> > Arguably, maybe we want to be able to choose the default and the "arch
> > default" is shortsighted and naive.  But in that case, you'd want to
> > have the option to STRIP, LIBTOOL, EMPTYDIRS in the options=() in a
> > PKGBUILD.
> 
> I've merged some/most of these.  I think it is important to provide
> this configurability.  Just because the packages on archlinux.org are
> built one way, it doesn't mean that the packages from "joe's repo for
> archlinux" need to be built the exact same way.
> 
> Thanks for the patch.  For the record, I'm in the process of
> 'twiddling' with makepkg/gensync so they're not complete atm - I check
> into cvs what I do at work so I can work more at home 8).
> 

You get paid for working on pacman? Great!

Jürgen




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