Re: [arch-general] Is it a bug ? (device-mapper PKGBUILD)

On 07/01/09 at 05:00pm, nezmer@gmail.com wrote:

Hi , I was looking at the device-mapper PKGBUILD . I'm not sure but the last line looks problematic :

# fix device-mapper link bug ln -sf /lib/libdevmapper.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libdevmapper.so" || return 1

What If device-mapper is not yet installed in the system ? What am I missing ?

if i understand it correctly, build() just builds the package. only when you pacman -U it will you execute those commands (in sequence). therefore, the make and install steps are exectuted before the symlink is created. -- patrick brisbin