On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 14:34 +0200, Thomas via aur-general wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 questions: > > 1) when is it allowed and / or good practice to split multiple packages by 1 > PKGBUILD? > For example I have created a package which pulls 3 debian packages and > creates 3 Arch packages from it. > I want to do that in 1 PKGBUILD by package splitting. Is that a good idea or > should this avoided (if so why..)? > > > 2) I found a bug in package splitting regarding the variable "pkgdesc" - when > in AUR: it simply gets ignored when used in package_<pkgname> functions. > > Example: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-libs-git > -> Line 220: > https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=systemd-git#n220 > > It should work though according to: > https://archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html#_package_splitting > > It seems to work when in the regular package database - which is using the > same PKGBUILD as the AUR ofc: > https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/systemd-libs/ > > -> Is this the right place to report an issue like that? > >
I do not think this is a bug, when viewing the web page for the package base [1] it does not display the description, but when viewing the individual package's page [2], it does display them. > Thanks in advance > Thomas [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/systemd-git [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-git Mark King
