[csw-maintainers] checkpkg for builds spanning on 2 or more days (again)

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Am 05.12.2012 um 08:53 schrieb pfelecan at opencsw.org:
>> Still getting this error when the packaging process spans more than 2 days!
>> 
>> A lot of energy spent to fail for this kind of reason.
>> 
>> Please don't tell me to do it manually as I have 96 packages…
>
> This is finally fixed in r19819:
>   https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset/19819
>
> After all the solution was quite easy, but I didn't see it before: just put
> the filename statically in the gspec describing the build to mkpackage.
> The filename from there is also taken for checkpkg, so it should work
> without problems now.
>
> I always pumped up my head on how to pass environment variables between
> subinvocations, which is indeed not trivial.
>
> Just let me know how it goes.

Thank you for your always quick intervention! I started a new build of
TeXLive and I'm quite optimistic that it will continue after midnight
which is an optimal venue to test your enhancement.
-- 
Peter