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FS#7668 - would like to have -j & -w in makepkg again

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Alexander Baldeck (kth5) - Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 15:28 GMT
Last edited by eliott (cactus) - Tuesday, 04 September 2007, 06:33 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Low
Reported Version 3.0.5
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
makepkg 2.9.8 used to have 2 more - in my opinion useful - options:
-j : for modifying MAKEFLAGS="-jX"
-w : to automaticly move a package file after it's built

Steps to Reproduce:
Mentioned arguments are unknown to makepkg 3.x.
This task depends upon

Closed by  eliott (cactus)
Tuesday, 04 September 2007, 06:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Closing as "won't fix", per request.
Reopen if needed.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 26 July 2007, 20:04 GMT
Regarding -j, isn't is just as easy to run something like
MAKEFLAGS="-jX" makepkg
?
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 26 July 2007, 22:56 GMT
-w Move a package- for what purpose? Can't this be taken care of with either the PKGDEST variable or a simple 'mv' command call (very easily done in a script).
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 27 July 2007, 19:27 GMT
The comments above by Dan and I are the real reason these options were removed... they're silly when you could do the exact same thing already. The only difference is that they're no longer makepkg options, and thus purely cosmetic.

MAKEFLAGS="-j3" makepkg && mv *.pkg.tar.gz /home/repo/pkgs/

Covers all bases, yes?
Comment by Alexander Baldeck (kth5) - Saturday, 28 July 2007, 16:18 GMT
Indeed those options are of cosmetic nature, then again I would very much prefer to not need to MAKEFLAGS everytime when I want to change just -jX. makepkg -j was nice if you like me switch back and forth between many machines without having to modify makeflags in either makepkg or permamently in .bashrc or something. I found these two very convenient options.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 03 August 2007, 20:05 GMT
well, makepkg DOES support a ~/.makepkg.conf file - you could export MAKEFLAGS in there, and also set PKGDEST for that machine - is that sufficient?

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