[pacman-dev] add contrib/pkgdigest.sh: bash script that replaces md5sums in most PKGBUILDs

[Martti Kühne]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 05:52:36AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 08/11/11 05:10, Martti Kühne wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 03:35:27PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> >>On 02/11/11 22:49, Martti Kühne wrote:
> >>>I'd like to see support for split packages, too, maybe I'll add it some time. Using it locally, while improving my dwm patches.
> >>>Different approaches include playing around with $PATH, use absolute start paths for testing, but once I got used to this way, I just can't resist it any more... :)
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>I do not understand the comment about split packages?  How do they
> >>change anything to do with extracting and replacing the checksum
> >>arrays?
> >
> >Well, the script does not extract any checksum from a PKGBUILD and does
> >currently not care about *sums assignments within functions, as may be the
> >case with split packages. However I'd like to add that in a later version.
> >
> 
> There should be no *sum assignment within functions of a PKGBUILD as
> that is not a variable that can be overridden within a split
> package. In fact, it would make no sense at all...
> 

Of course. That means as far as I can tell, the only remaining problems are
about $CARCH conditionals? Those aren't impossible to do, as they always seem
in LR-context, too, they just need to be done right. I can look into that.

> >>
> >>Also the comment about $PATH confuses me...
> >
> >Testing a package one is working on can be done in several ways, one could add
> >the source directory to PATH or create symlinks, or use ./blah... In case of a
> >window manager the latter isn't comfortable, since it includes modifying
> >~/.xinitrc, hence my seemingly far-fetched mentioning of $PATH.
> >
> 
> What?  How is this relevant to updating checksums?

No, it's not relevant. Sorry for the noise, I thought I was supposed to
emphasize. The bugreport someone has linked was talking about makepkg
integration by "-G" flag?

cheers!
mar77i