[Slackbuilds-users] .info file variable expansion

[Petar Petrov]

I do not intend to sound nagging, but why not implement such a feature
in order to make maintainers' job easier?

-petar

On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 at 07:03, B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Maintainers, please don't use $PRGNAM, $VERSION, etc in .info file keys.
>
> Examples:
>
> DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/kovmir/$PRGNAM/archive/v$VERSION/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz"
>
> DOWNLOAD_x86_64="https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/24386000/packages/generic/librewolf/$VERSION-1/LibreWolf.x86_64.AppImage"
>
> I know the .info file looks like valid shell script code (and it
> is), but it's also used by things that aren't shells, which don't do
> variable substitution. Things like, the SBo database itself, and the
> sbosrcarch downloader.
>
> Because someone will ask... No, the guidelines on the website don't
> say anything about this, but the examples clearly don't use it. It
> never occurred to us that someone would do this, which is why there
> hasn't been a written policy about it.
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