On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Sebastian Nowicki wrote: >> >> Is running the package() functions required? I realise it is semantically >> correct, but isn't the typical use case for the -R flag simply to change >> metadata? In that case only the variables defined in the package() functions >> have to be read. I'm not familiar with the implementation so there might be >> a problem there.
It is usually best to rerun packaging, as fakeroot often leaves permissions in odd states after exiting. I've used -R before and produced a package with my own permissions rather than root.root. > To read the variables defined in the package function, we need to excue the > package functions. So this is necessary for at least package splitting. > My main use case for this is if an "install" command fails, or needs > adjusted, then the packaging can just be run again. I have never had to > just adjust metadata so I don't know if that is a common usage. Also, the > packaging will take a fraction of the time that the building does (even for > large packages it will be very small) so this should not be too much of an > issue. How about "Repackage contents of the package without rebuilding"? -Dan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
