2009/10/2 huntxu <mhun...@gmail.com> > > 2. let makepkg install custom license automatically > When making packages whose licenses are "custom", we use PKGBUILD to > install the license file manually. Since it is a common step for those > packages, why not let makepkg do that automatically? > Just specify $licensefile in your PKGBUILD(like $licensefile=LICENSE) and > ensure the license file is in $startdir, it then will be automatically > install to $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/$licensefile when packaging. >
I don't quite like this one. Custom licenses are not always handmade, they can reside somewhere in $srcdir. Even if this is an "optional" variable, it's sort of not really worth it. It can be a path, or makepkg could parse $license for the word "custom" and look in $startdir for the file of which the name is after the colon eg. "custom:FOO". Can be handled many ways, but..is it worth the extra code, and KISS to let a variable define something which can just be scripted inside build() easily?
