[pacman-dev] added --config option to makepkg

[Xavier]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:17 PM, hoar heor <archye at pycut.com.ar> wrote:
>
> I don't really understand what you mean with gettext, as far as I know
> it's using it(although I maybe had skipped something)
>
<snip>
> I know i't's a bit complicated, but otherwise it would source the file
> several times if there are more arguments(maybe there's some other way
> simpler to do it that I haven't noticed, anyway I'm still looking at
> the source to simplify it)

I meant getopts of course...

> well, it's not only intended to be used with "safe" makepkg, look it
> this way, someone has -arch and -mute changed to his platform so the
> packages are optimized, the problem is that they won't work on other
> processor, if that person builds the package for a repo he will have
> to change makepkg.conf in this way he could do makepkg
> --config=release and it would source makepkg.release(witch obviously
> must have had created earlier), or maybe a specific makepkg for one
> package makepkg --config=python wich would use makepkg.python
>

Obviously, the symlinks solution is not limited to two configs either.

And the env var way can be modified as well to support any configs.
Just use MAKEPKGCONF="configname"
Then makepkg.conf can be just one line : source
/etc/${MAKEPKGCONF:-makepkg.conf.default}