[pacman-dev] makepkg -w argument removed?

[Jürgen Hötzel]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 05:31:52PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
> On 1/21/07, Scott Horowitz <stonecrest at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm just curious why the -w argument was removed from makepkg? It
> > apparently was removed in rev 1.23:
> >
> > I know that aurbuild is currently making use of it, for example.
> 
> Here is the most applicable list posting I can find about it:
> http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2006-December/000842.html
> 
> I think we had been discussing how many options makepkg had grown to,
> and wanted to cut some of them out. We removed the package specific
> options that can be set in a PKGBUILD. We also decided to remove the
> two storage directory parameters because they didn't seem necessary.
> Can the aurbuild script not simply perform a makepkg followed by a cp
> or mv operation? The biggest problem to this is that a user can set a
> custom location to build their packages to, in which case the aurbuild
> script will probably fail. However, scripts can source makepkg.conf
> and find out where packages are destined for.
> 
> Both makepkg 2.9.8 and makepkg 3 have 21 command line options, so
> adding more just makes the script that much more complex.

makepkg could use environment variables customized by the user:

PKGDEST=${PKGDEST:-$startdir}

instead of hardcoding defaults

PKGDEST=$startdir

Jürgen
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