[pacman-dev] Splitting packages in makepkg

[Silvio Fricke]

Hello Friends,

> Modified idea:
>
> PKGBUILD
> ------------------
> pkgname=foobar
> pkgver=1.0
> pkgrel=1
> subpackages=(dev doc)
> pkgdesc="base package desc"
> pkgdesc_dev="foo dev desc"
> ....
>
> 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 (if $startdir/pkg is not empty)
> $pkgname-dev-...pkg.tar.gz (if $startdir/pkg-dev is not empty)
> $pkgname-doc-...pkg.tar.gz (if $startdir/pkg-doc is not empty)
>
> May be I am not too famillar with bash, but you can get pkgdesc_dev at
> least with construction like this:
> $ export pkgdesc_dev="foo dev desc"
> $ export pkgdescname=pkgdesc_dev
> $ echo `bash -c  "echo \$\`echo $pkgdescname\`"`
> foo dev desc
>
> It can be easy modified for full package names as I described above:
> subpackages=(foo foo-dev foo-doc kmail kopete)
> or
> pkgname=(foo foo-dev foo-doc kmail kopete)

why we need this? We need only a possibility to make splitted packages.
I see the first step to get the same buildfiles like gentoo :-).

The last patch from me, make it possible. Finish!

Bye,
eS.eF.

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