[PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #5: split

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:54AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>>
>>   - add funtionality to split into and build sub packages
>
> I suspect that this functionality could also be handled with judicious
> use of extra/whatever files.

Sure.  All of the configuring, building and packaging can be handled
by other scripts than mknetrel-core.  I was just hoping that we could
reduce duplication of effort.

A good half-way alternative that I would like to suggest, is to
prepare domkdist () for subpackaging, just like I did; but move the
*_name and *_split funtions out to extra/whatever.

Note that Chuck posted a comment about how debian's packaging rules
(a good part of this is splitting packages) is all duplicated; which
would be a thing to avoid.  That's also why I suggested something like
this patch.

What do you think?

> Also, why should build_prefix ever be anything but /usr?

Lots of reasons.  It doesn't really hurt, too?  Or am I being too
flexible.  This is a minor point, imo.

Jan.
 
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