[Dev] [PATCH] libremakepkg: fix building packages requring a rw startdir

[Andreas Grapentin]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 10:09:50AM -0400, Luke Shumaker wrote:
> The guarantee I was trying to make is that the sources in the source
> tarball match what is used to build the package, and can be used to
> build the package.  Many packages from AUR do something silly like
> 
>     pkgver() { date +'%Y%m%d'; }

I would argue that the version of the package is ephemereal -- we
shouldn't have to make guarantees that, and also shouldn't rely on the
fact that a subsequent build of the package produces the same version
number.

Although I do agree that putting the build date into the pkgver is
silly...

Best,
Andreas


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