[csw-maintainers] GAR: Category-level post-merge target

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
>
> Am 12.01.2010 um 15:37 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
>>
>> Is it possible to add a category-level post-merge target? I would
>> like there to be a post-merge target that is executed with my custom
>> category, but I would like the individual packages to have separate
>> post-merge targets.  Is there such target already, or if not, can I
>> create it in GAR?  Say, category-post-merge?
>
> I guess I don't understand what you mean "by category". From my
> understanding the category is defined in CATEGORY and controls
> some file to include for category-specific behaviour. That means
> there is no such thing as a "category phase" like there is a
> phase for extract, patch, configure, etc.
>
> Or do you mean a harcoded _post-merge-category target which is
> always called can can be overwritten inside a category? This
> is easily doable if you need it.

Yes, that's what I meant.  Something like the currently existing
category-level depends, used by the python class.