[pacman-dev] Matching split packages to PKGBUILDs

[Xavier Chantry]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
> I was under the impression that the naming convention for split
> packages was $pkgbase-$pkgname. I've used this scheme in bauerbill to
> determine the corresponding PKGBUILD of split packages in
> $repo.abs.tar.gz. This works for all packages in the kernel26 PKGBUILD,
> for example, but someone has discovered that this does not work with
> dhclient.
>
> Is there simply no official rule for this or should dhclient actually
> be names "dhcp-client"? I'm hoping for that latter with the expectation
> that the name was not changed because the package was named "dhclient"
> before the advent of split packages. Should I file a bug report and
> request that the package be renamed "dhcp-client" and provide
> "dhclient"?
>
> If not, how can I sanely determine the corresponding PKGBUILD for
> packages such as dhclient which do not follow any naming convention
> that would identify the matching PKGBUILD? Would it be possible to
> include symlinks or duplicate PKGBUILDs in $repo.abs.tar.gz to enable
> applications to determine this?
>
> I know that some of you feel that the sole purpose of makepkg is to
> build packages and consequently have no regard for anything else one
> might want to do with PKGBUILDs, but this is very unfortunate as it
> severely limits the development of complementary tools. While I see the
> superficial simplicity of using bash for PKGBUILDs and the convenience
> of split PKGBUILDs, I really think this is going in the wrong
> direction. There is a difference between simplicity and laziness, and
> the trade-off of versatility and elegance is a considerable disadvantage
> of this direction, as previous discussions here have shown.
>
>

tar xOf /home/pkg/kernel26-firmware-2.6.32.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
.PKGINFO |grep pkgbase
pkgbase = kernel26

grep -A1 BASE /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/kernel26-firmware-2.6.32.3-1/desc
%BASE%
kernel26