[pacman-dev] Splitting packages in makepkg

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Sergej Pupykin <pupykin.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I like following idea:
>
> PKGBUILD
> ------------------
> pkgname=foobar
> pkgver=1.0
> pkgrel=1
> subpackages=(dev doc)
>
> ....
>
> build() {
>
>  .....
>
>  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
>  ...
>  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg-dev install
>  ...
>  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg-doc install
> }
> ---------------
>
> According to subpackages array makepkg creates 3 dirs:
> - $startdir/pkg (as usually)
> - $startdir/pkg-dev
> - $startdir/pkg-doc
>
> PKGBUILDs build function install all stuff into them
>
> And then, makepkg creates 3 packages:
>
> $pkgname-...pkg.tar.gz
> $pkgname-dev-...pkg.tar.gz
> $pkgname-doc-...pkg.tar.gz

FTR I like this idea too. Just setup some way to use $pkgdir/foo/
instead of $pkgdir (that's what the subpackages=() array does in the
above example), and then the rest is free-form. It's the simplest IMO.