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

[Eric Belanger]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:

> 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.

The community abs tree (/var/abs/community) has some proto files for SCM 
PKGBUILDs and rc script. Perhaps we should put all these proto files in 
one location (/var/abs or /usr/share)

>
>>
>> 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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