[tur-users] Please put arch= tag after pkgdesc=

[Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino]

On 01:26 Wed 25 Apr     , Robert Emil Berge wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:06:56 -0700
> Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:23:13PM +0200, Robert Emil Berge wrote:
> > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:56:06 +0100
> > > "Phil Dillon-Thiselton" <dibblethewrecker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On 24/04/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I think options should be placed after all other variables, e.g.
> > > > > after md5sums. Also please do not place md5sums array at the
> > > > > end of PKGBUILDs.
> > > > 
> > > > Why?  Mate, I got much better things to do than move one line that
> > > > hardly anyone will ever look at!
> > > 
> > > I agree. I suppose the x86_64 people have some reason for insisting
> > > on a standard for the arch= tag, but I see no reason for having
> > > strict rules for the order of all tags. I place the md5sums at the
> > > end of the PKGBUILD because that's where it ends up when I do a e.g 
> > > md5sum pkgname*gz >>PKGBUILD
> > 
> > Actually, this one has hidden errors.  I can't remember the
> > specifics, but at one point PKGBUILD was sourced and then a return
> > code was checked.  If the build function had an error in it but there
> > were md5sums at the end of the PKGBUILD it could cause things to
> > break later.  Andy ran into it when doing x86_64 building a lot time
> > ago.
> It could be something that has happened to me quite a lot with Lowarch.
> I do the md5sum thing, which gives the sum at the end of the PKGBUILD
> and then the file name. Sometimes I forget to remove the file name at
> the end of the file. The packages builds ok, but when doing gensync,
> the process will break, because you get an error at the end of the
> PKGBUILD. The solution is simply not to forget to remove the filename
> after the md5sum.

or just use:
$> makepkg -g

:)

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