[arch-dev-public] About the vim packages (Opinions needed)

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Tobias Kieslich wrote:
>>
>> 2. Do we wanna have a cvs enabled buildsystem just because upon an
>>   initial rebuild the download is faster (It would annoy the hell out
>>   of me because as package maintainer I would have to dowload
>>   everything everytime)
>
> Can we not just do something like the bash PKGBUILD?
>
> if [ $_patchlevel -gt 000 ]; then
>   for p in $(seq -w 001 $_patchlevel); do
>       source=(${source[@]}
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.0-patches/bash40-$p)
>   done
> fi

Yes and no. After it hits 100, they make one big bundle for those 100
patches and remove the originals (it's stupid). So if the patch level
is 342, you need to download patches "1-100", "101-200", "201-300",
301, 302, ..., 341, 342.