[pacman-dev] [PATCH] With VCS sources, only update sources in $srcdir.

[Allan McRae]

On 09/10/13 21:36, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> On 09/10/13 12:54, Allan McRae wrote:
>>> On 02/10/13 03:23, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
>>>> Previously, the sources in $srcdir were always removed prior building.
>>>>
>>>> After this change the sources are only updated. This makes
>>>> incremental builds possible. Also this goes in line with the current behaviour
>>>> for other types of sources, where the sources are just being overwritten without
>>>> being removed first.
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> Patch seems to be broken:
>>>
>>> makepkg: line 586: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
>>> makepkg: line 3188: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>>>
>>
>> This is all due to the use of backticks noted below and how they get
>> mangled when using m4.
> 
> Oh, right. I tested this on the makepkg that I already had installed
> on my system, so I didn't catch this one. I'll take a look at it,
> maybe the pushd is not even necessary.
> 
> BTW: should I resubmit this patch immediately after fixing the issue
> or should I wait for the "Moved dependencies of download functions
> into a library"?
> 

Good question...   Your patch would be easier to merge after the fact.
Just submit, I can merge.

Allan