[pacman-dev] PATHNAME in sync/*/desc

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Mark Constable <markc at renta.net> wrote:
> I'm just checking if this could be a reasonable idea and if so I'd look into
>  providing a patch. Would it be feasible to add a %PATHNAME% variable
>  to the sync desc file ?
>
>  For instance in this case, fetching "any" arch packages would not need to
>  symlinked into the same directory to be found...
>
>   %FILENAME%
>   hotstuff-0.9.2-1-any.pkg.tar.bz2
>
>   %PATHNAME%
>   ../any/
>
>  It may provide repo maintainers with some flexibility (hard to test without
>  it being possible) and perhaps %PATHNAME% could also be a URL and that
>  might also be interesting, but the simple relative path prefix would be useful.

What's wrong with:

%FILENAME%
../any/hotstuff-0.9.2-1-any.pkg.tar.bz2

As far as I know, that'd work just fine (assuming the http server
respects '..', at least)