[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] makepkg: Allow install/changelog decls to be arrays

[Allan McRae]

On 10/10/11 13:35, Dave Reisner wrote:
> This doesn't actually change the treatment of install and changelog
> varaibles, but it allows valid bash syntax to get by our parsing of
> these variables.
>
> Fixes FS#25827.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner<dreisner at archlinux.org>
> ---
> This is getting pretty ugly... I'm still 50/50 on whether or not we should do
> this. I will point out that if we choose not to merge this, there's a dozen or
> so packages in extra/community that need to be fixed:
>
> $ grep -lE '^(install|changelog)=\(' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD
>
> And just because I'm getting a little paranoid about making changes this close
> to release, here's the test rig I used to proof this patch:
>
> http://paste.xinu.at/XcbR/
>
> Allan, thoughts?
>

I will give this an ack.  I lean ever so slightly to the side that if 
bash accepts that syntax then so should we.  So given this is a fairly 
small fix, I see no point in not including it.

I added a couple more cases to your tests (involving files with 
spaces...) and all seems good to me.

Allan