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

[Allan McRae]

On 31/01/13 20:38, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sorry - completely misread this.   Did not pick up the build() function
part.

This is interesting...  I will look into it further.

Allan