Re: [pacman-dev] makepkg repackage option text

2009-03-25 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Allan McRae 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 pa

Re: [pacman-dev] makepkg repackage option text

2009-03-25 Thread Allan McRae
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 im

Re: [pacman-dev] makepkg repackage option text

2009-03-25 Thread Sebastian Nowicki
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

[pacman-dev] makepkg repackage option text

2009-03-25 Thread Allan McRae
Hi, Currently makepkg has a line like this: echo "$(gettext " -R, --repackage Repackage contents of pkg/ without building")" which is now true, but only to an extent... If a PKGBUILD has a package() function or split packages, then the packaging functions are run, not just a simple repac