[pacman-dev] Summary of pacman development

[Andrew Fyfe]

Dan McGee wrote:
> On 7/10/07, Andrew Fyfe <andrew at neptune-one.net> wrote:
>> Andrew Fyfe wrote:
>>> Dan McGee wrote:
>>>> * FS 7271- makepkg caching netfiles- should be a super quick fix for
>>>> someone like Andrew (hint, hint) :) Just look at Roman's last comment
>>> :D
>>> http://neptune-one.homeip.net/git?p=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=1ecf75677e9cafa04e2cda1c3eaecb2f8b647315
>> That should have been
>> http://neptune-one.homeip.net/git?p=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=5f172a6f3bf354af32e1e8b79e2fd3dcb4bf120a
> 
> Only suggestion for this- instead of erroring out if it can't be
> cached there, can we still fall back to the $startdir for storage? Or
> better yet- error if $SRCDEST is invalid, but just fall back if
> $SRCDEST is undefined. I haven't tested your patch enough to see what
> happens in this case.
If SRCDEST isn't passed to makepkg (ie SRCDEST=... makepkg) it defaults 
to $startdir. So it's always set :)