[pacman-dev] makepkg patch - simple pkg class feature

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/12/27, K. Piche <kpiche at rogers.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I hope everyone had a great holiday!
>
> Perl module PKGBUILDs tend to be a mess and some build() functions are
> not "standard".  Now with the new upcoming perl policy all of the
> PKGBUILDs need to be "standardized" again.  To help combat this problem
> I hacked up a package class feature where all the functions and package
> defaults are set in a class file and sourced before the package is
> built.  The class file can define a set of build functions to call
> instead of just build().
>
> Some advantages:
> - standardization of package types, even AUR packages could be uniform
> - code in makepkg could be moved to a class so that it could easily be
> override by people doing non-standard things: no man pages, i585 ports
> - anything set in the PKGBUILD takes precedence over the class
> - defined build functions can be optional (see the sample perl class)
>
> The patch is backwards compatible with non-class PKGBUILDs and I have
> been using my classy makepkg for 5 days.
>
> Attached is the patch, a perl class, and sample PKGBUILD for
> Sys::Syslog.  Right now the class file has to be in the same directory
> as the PKGBUILD.
>
> Happy New Year!
>

Dan, Aaron, is this in your working trees somewhere?
Otherwise it would be better to create a feature request on Flyspray
so it won't get lost.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)