On 2010/10/22 Peter Simons
Hi Rémy, > The missing part is: > * use the revdeps script [#] to compute reverse dependencies > * use some sed magic or shell script to increment pkgrel in the PKGLIST. > * add to manycabal2arch the ability to: > - not regenerate already generated packages > - read pkgrel from the PKGLIST > * makeworld checks only existence of files to know whether something > has to be rebuilt, if the pkgrel has changed, the package filename > changes, hence the package has to be rebuilt.
I may be misunderstanding things, of course, but this sounds very much like the short answer to my question is "no".
Yes.
Does it even make sense to implement all those features that you've mentioned? From the looks of it, you are about to re-invent Make.
It is necessary to increment $pkgrel in order to get pacman to know an update is available (if the goal is a binary repo). This means that any version bump on a package needs a regeneration for all dependent PKGBUILDs. I don't really know a 'make' way of doing that. Regards, Rémy.