[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Update NEWS for pacman-4.1

[Allan McRae]

On 31/01/13 20:22, Martin Panter wrote:
> On 14 November 2012 04:33, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> +              - makepkg:
>> +                - require bash>=4.0
>> +                - support for VCS URLs (git, bzr, svn and hg) (FS#7816,
>> +                  FS#8890, FS#13727, FS#15895, FS#16384, FS#16872, FS#19459,
>> +                  FS#19476, FS#20841, FS#21098, FS#28605)
>> +                - split debugging symbols into seperate package (FS#10975)
>> +                - use SKIP in checksums to skip integrity check (FS#19735)
>> +                - add prepare() function to PKGBUILD (FS#30582)
>> +                - pkgrel must be in decimal format
>> +                - PKGBUILDs without package() functions are depricated
> 
> Maybe also add this, because I’m seeing a few AUR packages that
> reference $pkgdir from the build() function and get the incorrect
> plain old “pkg” directory.
> 
> - pkg/$pkgname is always used as $pkgdir
> - $pkgdir is no longer usable in the build() function
> 
> Also I think the PKGBUILD man page needs updating because it
> associates “pkgdir” with the build() function. Unless there is a valid
> use for $pkgdir in build() that I am not aware of, in split packages
> or something?

No...  $pkgdir always points the right place.  It is just no longer
$startdir/pkg.