Lunar Improvement

[Auke Kok]

joel vennin wrote:

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>	Hello every one, 
>I've think a little but (usefull) improvement inside the lunar script. In 
>fact, florin and me are main maintener of KDE packages, so as you know some 
>times maintening some packages is boring. The "improvement" is about BUILD 
>files but it can be extend to other.
>
>I explain, the most parts of kde BUILD file are the same (i think it's the 
>same for gnome), so we can reduce size of build file and facilitate the 
>update of some packa ges. In the same  way we can make generic functions to 
>do some works.
>
>For the improvement just some changes:
>
>in the config file /etc/lunar/config we can add a variable like this 
>LUNAR_TEMPLATE=$MOONBASE/template
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>add a function into lunar which can be called use_template.
>
>it's definition:
>use_template () {
>  . $LUNAR_TEMPLATE/$1
>}
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>So, this function can be used inside BUILD file, like this for kde package:
>(
>   use_template kde.build
>) > $C_FIFO 2>&1
>
>where the kde.build file is inside the $LUNAR_TEMPLATE directory.
>
>So this is not outstanding, but very useful, IMO.
>
>Tell me what do you think about it and if you want i can add it into theedge.
>

1) we have other things to do first (two whole meetings with lots of 
action points to which nothing has been done yet)

2) effectively that means we should be in a feature freeze with respect 
to theedge/lunar.


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