[pacman-dev] two patches for makepkg

Sebastian Nowicki sebnow at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 13:02:37 EDT 2009


On Oct 2, 2009, at 5:35 PM, huntxu wrote:

> 2. let makepkg install custom license automatically
> When making packages whose licenses are "custom", we use PKGBUILD to  
> install the license file manually. Since it is a common step for  
> those packages, why not let makepkg do that automatically?
> Just specify $licensefile in your PKGBUILD(like  
> $licensefile=LICENSE) and ensure the license file is in $startdir,  
> it then will be automatically install to $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/ 
> $pkgname/$licensefile when packaging.

Seems distro-specific (license path) to me. Pacman/makepkg aim to be  
distro agnostic.


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