Couple of minor issues I noticed with pkgbuild:

I used SFEbluefish.spec and modified the Version to 1.1.0

Bug #1] Minor one and wouldn't really consider a bug, nevertheless minor
improvement is possible
Source:
http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/source/bluefish-%{version}.tar.bz2
The location of V1.1.0 tarball was different from the stable releases.
But wget (incorrectly)succeeded in getting bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2. This was
actually a html page served by apache saying
"The document you requested is not found on the server but there are other
similar ones"
This html got saved as the bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2

Possible solution: The below command maybe used (either before copying the
file from SOURCES dir or after a failed bunzip2)
Command "file bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2" returns "bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2: html
document"
Command "file bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2.1" returns "bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2.1:
bzip2 compressed data , block size = 900k"

Bug #2] This is a bug
A side effect of bypassing source download if SOURCES dir already contains
the tarball.
I corrected the URL
http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/devel/source/bluefish-%{version}.tar.bz2
Since SOURCES directory contained the incorrect tarball, the correct one did
not get downloaded from the modified url.
Manually removed incorrect tarball from SOURCES directory and tried
"pkgtool --download build-only SFEbluefish.spec"

The source tarball got download as bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2.1 since
bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2 already existed in the download_to dir.
(due to the -nd option given to wget)
But what got copied to SOURCES dir was the erroneous
bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2and again pkgbuild failed although the correct
source was available in
download_to dir (with the name bluefish-1.1.0.tar.bz2.1)

Possible solution #1:
pkgbuild checks SOURCES dir and decides to download if tarball not present
Now, checks the download_to dir, if file exists renames it to foo.tar.bz2.<n>
(put this entry in the log)
Starts download using wget and uses the name foo.tar.bz2 and proceeds the
normal way

Possible solution #2:
pkgbuild downloads the file using wget
pkgbuild parses the wget output and recognizes the file downloaded as
foo.tar.bz2.<n>
pkgbuild copies foo.tar.bz2.<n> as foo.tar.bz2 into SOURCES dir and proceeds
the normal way

regards
Shiv
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