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

[Robert Emil Berge]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:46:35 +0200
Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino <themolok.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> :)
Hm..soon I'll take the time to read the option lists for the commands I
use a lot..