[arch-multilib] common variables in PKGBUILD

Harvey harv at gmx.de
Wed Sep 15 05:15:33 EDT 2010


Thomas,

> The AUR was never able to handle more complex PKGBUILDs, everything it
> parses (pkgname, pkgver, pkgrel, source, and so on) must be a string
> with no variable substitutions in it.
>
> The PKGBUILDs we use for binary packages are very often not AUR-compatible.

But how should someone uploading to AUR handle this? Does the wiki still 
reflect the opinion of the developers?

Harvey

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