[pacman-dev] PKGBUILD.proto - Take2

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 23:47:38 EST 2008


I agree with Allan on pretty much everything he said below. I'll add a
few things too.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Jud wrote:
>> --- PKGBUILD.proto      2008-12-05 23:32:33.000005000 +1000
>> +++ PKGBUILD.proto.new  2008-12-07 13:49:43.889569135 +1000
>> @@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
>>  # NOTE: Please fill out the license field for your package! If it is
>> unknown, # then please put 'unknown'.
>>  +
>>  # Contributor: Your Name <youremail at domain.com>
>> +
>>  pkgname=NAME
>> -pkgver=VERSION
>> +pkgver=VERSION # Note: if pkgver is '0.99-10' then use an underscore,
>> i.e. '0.99_10' pkgrel=1
>>
>
> Can we make this shorter.  I.e "# Note: Cannot contain hyphens."   This
> really should get documented in the man page.
Agreed on both counts. Patches welcome. :P

>>  pkgdesc=""
>> -arch=()
>> -url=""
>> +url="http://ADDRESS/"
>> +arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
>>
>
> Re-ordering why?  Also, adding Arch's standard arch values is distro
> specific.  We try and avoid that in the pacman code.
Mostly agreed. This is a shell script so order really doesn't matter.
I feel like default arch values might be nice to show what we are
going for, however. I'm really impartial on this though, and I'd defer
to Allan on this decision as I've made him Mr. Makepkg. :)

>>  license=('GPL')
>>  groups=()
>>  depends=()
>> @@ -20,17 +22,13 @@
>>  replaces=()
>>  backup=()
>>  options=()
>> -install=
>> -source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
>> -noextract=()
>> -md5sums=() #generate with 'makepkg -g'
>> +install=${pkgname}.install
>> +source=(http://ADDRESS/TO/FILE/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
>> +md5sums=() # Generate with 'makepkg -g'
>>
>
> Why remove noextract?  The prototype should have every field.
Agreed.

>>   build() {
>> -  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
>> -
>> -  ./configure --prefix=/usr
>> +  cd ${srcdir}${pkgname}-${pkgver}
>>
>
> Still missing a / in the middle of this line and the quotes are needed for
> people who build in directories with spaces.
And why the 6 unnecessary characters? {}{}{} is a waste IMO as you
didn't really give a good reason to change what is already there.
Please leave this line as-is.

>> +  ./configure --prefix=usr
>>   make || return 1
>> -  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
>> +  make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install || return 1
>>
>
> The trailing slash was added here deliberately as some makefiles suck.
>  Also, quotes are needed.
Yep.

We may sound harsh but we try to do reviews of every patch- don't get
discouraged, but please try and incorporate our feedback.

-Dan


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