[pacman-dev] makepkg -R with package() function

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The main thing I need to do to finish the package splitting work (apart from
> documentation...) is to fix the repackaging.
> So this is what I intend to do:
>
> 1) Old style PKGBUILD [no package() function or splitpkg]:  Behaviour
> unchanged.
> 2) With package() function or split packages: The package() function or
> package_*() functions are run.
>
> With split packages, the package_*() functions have to be run as that is
> where all the pkgname, pkgdesc, etc are overridden.  I think it makes sense
> to do so with the package() function too.  And I could see that being a lot
> more helpful as I could fix a broken install line etc while packaging.
>
> Comments?

+1 from me if you didn't do this already. :)

-Dan