[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/4] Recommend using "updpkgsums" in PKGBUILD prototypes instead of "makepkg -g"

[Emil Lundberg]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:18 PM, William Giokas <1007380 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:29:35PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 17/01/14 08:18, Jason St. John wrote:
>> > -md5sums=() #generate with 'makepkg -g'
>> > +md5sums=() # generate with 'updpkgsums'
>> >
>>
>> We can not do that.  updpkgsums is a contrib/ script so may not be
>> installed on all systems using pacman/makepkg.
>>
>
> Just to clarify that, Arch packages contrib with pacman (there's no
> pacman-contrib, just pacman). There may be other people that are using
> pacman but not Arch and don't want the contrib scripts.
>
> Thanks,
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How about recommending both, then?
# generate with 'makepkg -g' or 'updpkgsums'

/Emil