Hi all,
I have just packaged a version of makepkg from my git working branch for
people to test out. This installs alongside the makepkg from pacman so
won't affect your regular package building.
i686: http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/makepkg-git-20081223-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
x86_64:
http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/makepkg-git-20081223-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
New features of interest:
Package splitting support!
- multiple packages are specified in the pkgname variable
- each package gets its own packaging function where package variables
can be overridden
- see PKGBUILD-split.proto (in /usr/share/pacman) for "documentation"
Added optional package() function in PKGBUILDs
- limits fakeroot usage to packaging stages
- see "man PKGBUILD-git.conf" for more info
Treat info pages like man pages:
- automatically compress info pages
- info pages are not removed with the !docs options
Added purge option:
- automatically removes common conflicting or removed files
- specify files in PURGE_TARGETS in makepkg.conf
- default PURGE_TARGETS=(usr/{,share}/info/dir .packlist *.pod)
Replace getopt usage with internal function:
- allows makepkg to run on systems with old getopt version (e.g. Mac OS X)
Other smaller changes:
- ability to pass PKGBUILD from pipe
- package compression type auto-detection
- add configuration option to specify man/info page directories
- specify alternative configuration file using the --config option
- all integrity sums provided are checked
- some fixes from the pacman 3.2 maintenance branch:
- detect CRLF line endings
- when automatically updating an SCM package pkgver, pkgrel is
reset to 1
- speed up mercurial package revision checking
- improved compatibility with older bash versions
Known issues:
- The -p flag to specify an alternative name for a PKGBUILD is broken
- Repackaging with split-packages definitely does not work
- Repackaging when using package() function probably does not work...
- Some minor output changes are needed for package splitting
Bug reports either to the pacman-dev list or the pacman/makepkg section
of the bug tracker.
Enjoy,
Allan
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