[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: add --allsource option

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at frugalware.org
Mon Jun 2 09:54:57 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:47:36AM -0500, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> So what are you saying, did anyone actually look at the patch? I
> didn't change the existing --source option one bit, that *still* only
> includes local source files.

yes, i read that patch :)

> All I did was add a completely new --allsource option that allows you
> to also build an src.tar.gz with all source, local and remote. How
> much more flexible can we get than having two options here?

i just said that creating such a huge srpm-like tarball is a bad idea,
and encouraging people to do so by adding an option for that is not
something i would recommend. just my two cents, though.
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