[pacman-dev] permission/location for var/abs and cache/src

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 23:21:48 EDT 2007


On 3/9/07, Travis Willard <travisw at wmpub.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:41:48 -0500
> "Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I didn't implement the above looping stuff, but I left a nice note
> > right where it needs to be done. :)
>
> Here you go - incorporating Dan's cleanup patch as well.  This is a
> diff from the version of extrapkg patched with the minimal patch I
> double-attached previously.
>
> In the (limited) tests I've done with this, it seems to do the job.
> I've kept backward support for lack of -{$arch} suffix in for now, but
> it's easily enough removed.
>
> I pulled msg(), warning(), and error() from makepkg for it too, for
> consistency - I thought of this 'cause Dan's patch used 'error' in one
> place (copy-pasta probably) and I thought to myself "Meh, why not".  If
> you'd rather the plain output I can put it back.  :P

I threw this patch up at the same place my old one was with all
changes from the SVN copy (revision 223). Here it is:
<http://www.archlinux.org/~dan/extrapkg.patch>.

Xentac, I believe this is your SVN repo? I CC'ed you in on this if you
want to check this in, correct me if I am wrong.

-Dan




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