[pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/3] makepkg: Empty/create only $pkgdir's relevant to current PKGBUILD (unless CLEANUP is set)

[David Macek]

On 25. 3. 2015 6:13, Allan McRae wrote:
>> I've thought about it, and I like more the version that defers deleting $pkgdir's until it is really needed. Clearing all $pkgdir's at once would produce different results in case a failure occurs before all packaging function are called.
>>
> 
> If packaging files, you could end up with two $pkgdir from the new
> package (one broken) and one from the old package - I do not like that
> inconsistency.  Why would you want to keep the old package $pkgdir if
> you are intending to replace it?

Hmm. You're right -- if some $pkgdir is important to me, running makepkg that needs to overwrite it would be silly.

Shall I make patch v2?

-- 
David Macek

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