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syamajala

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From: here, there, everywhere

Registered: 2005-01-25

Posts: 617

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my new mission!

I am now making it my mission to improve the quality of the PKGBUILDs that make up current and extra. It is not rare for one to find a PKGBUILD that is missing things like md5sums, files listed in the source array, and broken links. From now on when I find such things in PKGBUILDs when building things for arch64 I will report them in flyspray. Hopefully this will have a positive effect and not become an annoyance to the devs.

soloport

Member

Registered: 2005-03-01

Posts: 442

Re: my new mission!

Very worthy cause.  Thanks!

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: my new mission!

I often have to look for new working URLs. I will add them to flyspray.

One question: Do all the devs built with MAKEFLAGS="-j1" :?: So often I find packages that won't compile with any number larger than 1. So I often need to add "make -j1 || return 1" or even export MAKEFLAGS="-j1".

Is it wanted to also report this issues or will all packages everytime be build with a strict -j1 makeflag?

AndyRTR

brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: my new mission!

One question: Do all the devs built with MAKEFLAGS="-j1" :?: So often I find packages that won't compile with any number larger than 1. So I often need to add "make -j1 || return 1" or even export MAKEFLAGS="-j1".

Is it wanted to also report this issues or will all packages everytime be build with a strict -j1 makeflag?

AndyRTR

I experienced that with a custom samba rebuild for a X-less server machine. IMO these are upstream bugs and should be reported somewhere. I'm afraid I don't know much about Makefiles, so I cannot say how these compile issues can be fixed.