[pacman-dev] [PATCH] add pkgbase to package and database

[Pierre Schmitz]

Am Sonntag 14 Juni 2009 10:39:11 schrieb Allan McRae:
> This change I am 50/50 on.  pkgbase was supposed to be purely
> informational when splitting packages and it is entirely optional to
> specify when splitting packages (as pkgname[0] is used as a backup).  
> However, I see that could be useful...

Right, it changes the "only for fancy makepkg output" meaning of pkgbase to a 
more important role. But as long as this version of makepkg is not released 
this is possible.

Let's say if you split a package you have to define pkgbase and then the same 
rules apply to it as to pkgname atm. E.g. our tools expect that your PKGBUILD 
is within a dir with the same name as pkgname. (even though pacman/makepkg 
does not care about it)

But even if we forget about the use for our Arch specific db-scripts its imho 
very usefull to have some kind of connection between a package and a PKGBUILD. 
We now have pkgname which is a unique identifier; for split packages that 
would be pkgbase.

PS: We might adjust this patch in a way that pkgbase will only be added for 
split packages and pkgbase will be required for split packages.

-- 

Pierre Schmitz


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