Add option to keep package sources after successful build about pikaur HOT 12 CLOSED

better KeepBuildDirBetweenBuilds or just KeepBuildDir

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so far i am thinking about implementing it as option RemoveBuildDir in upcoming config file

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One option would be the AURDEST environment variable (which is used by at least two other projects, being pacaur and aurutils)

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I thought the point of .cache was for keeping files you may need later at runtime (hence sources). A lot faster to keep the source tree and git pull the changes (isn't that required for the --needed parameter anyways? (Was in pacaur at least))

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if you also want command line argument for that feel free to propose the name, it should go to the next release

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what about -k, --keepbuild?

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It would be nice to have the sources of packages in aur_repos/ or have a option AURDEST / SRCDEST as in pacaur
For now, setting KeepBuildDir leads to having:
PKGBUILD, .SRCINFO in aur_repos/
PKGBUILD, .SRCINFO and sources in build/ (and build stuff depending on BUILDDIR)

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i purposely splitted build dir from aur clone dir to make it easier to clean-up

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Why not just set BUILDDEST BUILDDIR (from makepkg) if you want to separate the build directory?

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if it's set -- it will be used

UPD: my bad, it's implemented as i said above only for PKGDEST, can do for BUILDDEST as well with the same logic

UPD2: isn't it BUILDIR, not BUILDDEST?

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UPD2: isn't it BUILDIR, not BUILDDEST?

Yep. https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/makepkg.conf.5.html#_options

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i've checked -- if it's set that dir will be used, so keepbuild option will make no effect in that case

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