[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Make "makepkg -g" ignore the current architecture.

[Allan McRae]

On 06/02/16 17:54, Alastair Hughes wrote:
> makepkg -g no longer works on PKGBUILDs which do not include the current
> architecture due to a change in the 4.2.1 -> 5.0.0 cycle.
> I'm not sure how to approach the fix, so I've just made "makepkg -g" set the
> IGNOREARCH flag. Is this a reasonable approach?

I need to mull this over some more...  but I am leaning towards yes.

> The other option that I considered would be to move lint_pkgbuild to after
> GENINTEG is processed, but I think that having some sanity checking on the
> PKGBUILD's source array before downloading the sources would be helpful?

I agree - nothing should be done with a PKGBUILD that fails the checking.

> On a related note, is there any tests for makepkg? I couldn't see any, but I
> may have missed something obvious. If so, then I could try to make a test for
> this case to ensure that it doesn't break again in the future.

There are no test cases.  I started looking at this once, but was never
sure how to best implement it.  This is definitely something I want
added if you are volunteering!

Allan