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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 4, 2008 10:52 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. Feel free to pull it into the abs tree whenever you want. Just
let us know so we can kill it off from the pacman codebase.

> > 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/.

I agree that these should be in /usr/share/pacman/. We should also
keep them in the ABS tree for the time being.

>
> 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
>
>
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