[pacman-dev] [RFC] Make PKGBUILD attributes configurable

[Allan McRae]

On 23/04/17 09:36, Dustin Falgout wrote:
> I would like a way to include custom attributes from the PKGBUILD in the output of the --printsrcinfo option. So basically, this...
> 
> pkgbase = pacman
> 	pkgdesc = A library-based package manager with dependency support
> 	pkgver = 5.0.1
> 	pkgrel = 4
> 	url = http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/
> 	arch = i686
> 	arch = x86_64
> 	...
> 	_custom_attribute1 = some value
> 	_custom_attribute2 = some value
> 	_custom_attribute3 = some value
> 	...
> 
> pkgname = pacman
> 

Bringing the mailing list back into this  (seems our reply field is
broken...)

Can you give an example of what a custom attribute would be?   Your
example is still to vague to judge whether this would be something we
wish to support.

Thanks,
Allan