On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:00:53 -0500 Chris Brannon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stephen Weinberg wrote: > > I know. I read that when making mine. I am wondering why that > > package deletes the source when it is done with it. It makes more > > sense to update the svn when you rebuild the package instead of > > redownloading the whole thing. > > Right. You shouldn't delete your svn checkout after building the > source. However, you should copy the source to a second directory. > Do the build in that directory, to avoid polluting your checkout. > That's how things are done in > /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-svn.proto. > The code in that prototype also removes any build directory left from > a previous run of makepkg. > > -- Chris That makes sense. I need to change my package. But the pkgbuild I pointed to just deletes the main checkout. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/abiword-svn/abiword-svn/PKGBUILD http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/abiword-svn/abiword-svn/PKGBUILD
