[pacman-dev] [abs] Proto files and Makeworld

[Dan McGee]

On Jan 4, 2008 9:11 AM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> With ABS splitting off from pacman, I was wondering where makeworld and the
> .proto files belonged.
>
> To me, makeworld seems to be an abs tool (and even mentions ABS in its
> usage) so it would seem to belong in the abs project, not with pacman
> itself.

Big +1 here. I have been slowly but surely trying to eliminate the
hard links to ABS in the pacman source, and this is (as far as I know)
the last one, although we could generalize it. I can offer assistance
here getting it moved over and cleaned up (remove the gettext stuff?)
if you want, as I've already had to do this with the abs script.

> The proto files (PKGBUILD.proto, install.proto, and possibly a
> ChangeLog.proto?) seem to belong with makepkg in my mind.  Any changes in
> these proto files would be directly caused by changes to makepkg, and the
> coupling of putting them in with the pacman package seems to make sense.
> I've never understood why we sync them with abs in the first place - if
> someone wants a prototype PKGBUILD to start from, why should they have to
> download the entirety of our repos' build scripts?

Original decisions die hard :). Take a glance at contrib/ in the
pacman source- there you will find PKGBUILD.proto and proto.install,
which should always be the canonical definition. I think it would be
very wise for us to install these with the pacman package somewhere in
/usr/share, and maybe have some symlinks for old times sake in the abs
package from /var/abs/.

Note to self: look into where those files should live in the
pacman-git repo (probably should be somewhere besides contrib as they
should be installed by default).

> In short, I think we should move makeworld to the abs project/package, and
> move the prototype files into the pacman project/package, perhaps in
> /usr/share/pacman/*proto?
>
> Thoughts?

Good to see you already taking charge. Thanks!

-Dan