On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 12:09 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > %actions
> > %user(username=foo, password=bar, ...)
> > %group(groupname=blah)
> 
> I'd make them even more generic so that as ips adds actions pkgbuild 
> doesn't have to be updated.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> %action(....)
> 
> pkgbuild really shouldn't be doing anything but passing the raw action 
> string directly to pkgsend.

That makes sense.  It's a pity that pkgbuild doesn't [yet] support
parametric macros, so that all other actions could be derived from
a generic %action macro.

> One of the things ips is talking about supporting eventually are custom 
> actions, so it really won't do to have specific keywords for these things.

Is there an RFE I can Cc myself on?
(Actually, please feel free to Cc me on pkg bugs/rfes that may be
interesting for a build system, especially ones that affect the
manifest syntax or semantics)

Thanks,
Laca



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