[pacman-dev] FS#7982 - patch to makepkg to allow PKGBUILDs building more than one package

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/6/16 Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com>:
>
> Why would we need to change license, pkgver and url?  This is for
> splitting packages that come in a single source file...  Otherwise you
> make two PKGBUILDs. Can anyone give me a possible reason for changing
> these.

IIRC once I maintained a package (a game) that had its data under a
different license than source,
but was packaged in one tarball (my memory may be wrong though).

> I really think we need to take a big step back here.  What we really
> need is to have a prototype PKGBUILD for a split package that is
> relatively agreed upon.  As I said in other emails there are multiple
> ways to do this and one needs to be chosen.  Once the decisions have
> been made about the approach to take, and a naming scheme for
> functions/variables, then we can look at patches.  At the moment the
> patches seem without a defined goal (at least to me).

agree

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)