[pacman-dev] CVS update of pacman-lib/scripts (makeworld)

[Dan McGee]

On 2/12/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/12/07, Aaron Griffin <aaron at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >     Date: Monday, February 12, 2007 @ 04:37:02
> >   Author: aaron
> >     Path: /home/cvs-pacman/pacman-lib/scripts
> >
> > Modified: makeworld (1.8 -> 1.9)
> >
> > * Added long options (missing in patch)
> > * converted "sudosync" to "usesudo" to match makepkg
> > * Removed nostrip, as it was removed from makepkg as well
>
> Regarding this change - it was a patch provided in flyspray.  However,
> it brings up a good point - couldn't we just pass ALL options to
> makepkg, and use makepkg's --help output in the usage section?  Does
> anyone see anything wrong with something like that? makeworld doesn't
> seem to have it's own options anyway.

The current makeworld script seems pretty bad anyway- did you test it?
I couldn't get it to work all that well, but maybe it is just me. If
people are still using it, it may be worth a rewrite, and I could
throw that together for 3.1. But when I asked last on this list, no
one really said much.

-Dan