On 09/06/10 09:22, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:32 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:43:47 +1000, Allan McRae<allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
$startdir will not be removed. The error printed for $startdir usage
was always there so I did not change that. For install files, once 3.4
is released, you can put them in the source array without any issues and
then adjust them in $srcdir.
This patch was mainly to check for $startdir/pkg which will not be the
same as $pkgdir from 3.5 onwards (i.e. two releases away). This is
already true for split packages, but will become true for unsplit ones
too. A lot of packages are affected but we have been telling people
not to use $startdir/pkg for more that a year, maybe even two years...
No problem then. Maybe we could "sed" all $startdir/{pkg,src} usage in
trunk for the remaining packages. This way startdir will be gone sooner or
later.
Is this same advise applicable to AUR PKGBUILDs? If I read it correctly,
$startdir/pkg is wrong, $pkgdir is correct, and $startdir is correct.
$pkgdir and $srcdir should always be used rather than $startdir/pkg and
$startdir/src respectively as these are not guaranteed to be equal in
the future.
It is very rare that you should ever need to use $startdir in a PKGBUILD
at all.
Allan
