On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:18:14 +1000, "Allan McRae" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/06/10 16:07, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> I will apply this for now as we handle the install files the same way. >> In future we should come up with a better solution though. It's quite >> easy to write a PKGBUILD where this method will fail. The propper way is >> to source the PKGBUILD and use the evaluated $changelog variable. >> >> A problem are the package functions; I don't see a way to call them >> without executing the make install or whatever commands. (I'll better >> open a new thread about this problem) >> > > You can probably follow makepkg's handling in the source package > creation. See makepkg lines 1110-1122.
That is more clean indeed. But this will also fail if you enclose the changelog,install definition in an if-statement for example. :-) But I guess there wont be a super solid solution by design. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
