[pacman-dev] [PATCH] updpkgsums: Add --clean to makepkg call

[Allan McRae]

On 06/04/13 10:42, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 02:27:30AM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>>> Avoid makepkg to let src/ directory after updating the sums
>>
>> This has potential to incur unintended/unwanted side effects... I don't
>> think this should be the default. You could potentially look at
>> $BUILDDIR/src beforehand and only pass -c if the dir doesn't exist
>> beforehand, but I'm not sure we want to play that game.
>>
> 
> I don't see what kind of unintented/unwanted side effects this can occur.
> Unless you speak about --asroot.
> Is the following code could avoid us of those effects ?
> 
>  export BUILDDIR=$(mktemp --directory -t updpkgsums.XXXXX)
> makepkg --clean
> 

Using a completely separate build directory for this is probably the
best approach.   But then "makepkg --clean" is not enough.   Rather a
"rm -r BUILDDIR" would be needed.

Allan