Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD - custom DLAGENT - failed to create symbolic link

Sorry, I used the wrong DLAGENTS line in my last email. On 2016-09-26 11:12, respiranto wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to package the tools necessary to compile the freedict dictionaries as DICT files (and subsequently the dictionaries themselves). The whole PKGBUILD is to be found at the end of this message.

Since the sources for all the directories and the tools are provided in one single repository on github.com, I use svn to extract exclusively the respective necessary files.

This required a little fiddling, but I finally got it working using a strange custom DLAGENT ¹: DLAGENTS+=('_svn::/usr/bin/bash -c _u="%u";\ _u="${_u#_svn://}";\ _d="${_u%/*}";\ _f="${_u##*/}";\ /usr/bin/svn\ checkout\ "https://${_d}"\ "%o"\ --depth\ empty;\ cd\ "%o";\ svn\ up\ "%o"')

corrected:

DLAGENTS+=('_svn::/usr/bin/bash -c _u="%u";\ _u="${_u#_svn://}";\ _d="${_u%/*}";\ _f="${_u##*/}";\ /usr/bin/svn\ checkout\ "https://${_d}"\ "${_f}"\ --depth\ empty;\ cd\ "${_f}";\ svn\ up\ "${_f}"')

Anyways, this works as far as downloading is concerned. However, upon running makepkg, I get the following error: ==> Extracting sources... ln: failed to create symbolic link '<somedir>/src/' -> '': No such file or directory ln: failed to create symbolic link '<somedir>/src/' -> '': No such file or directory

The problem appears to be that makepkg stores empty names for the files downloaded with the custom DLAGENT.

Does somebody know the cause of this? Any help is appreciated.

Einhard Leichtfuß

¹ For some reason the '\ 's are necessary, quoting the whole bash skript inside did not work (properly escaped, of course).

corrected PKGBUILD: -------------------

# Maintainer: Einhard Leichtfuß _files=(tools Makefile) _pkgname=dict-freedict-tools pkgname=${_pkgname}-svn pkgver=r1420 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Tools to compile the Freedict dictionaries" arch=('any') url="http://www.freedict.org/" license=('GPL') makedepends=('subversion') provides=(${_pkgname}) conflicts=(${_pkgname}) DLAGENTS+=('_svn::/usr/bin/bash -c _u="%u";\ _u="${_u#_svn://}";\ _d="${_u%/*}";\ _f="${_u##*/}";\ /usr/bin/svn\ checkout\ "https://${_d}"\ "${_f}"\ --depth\ empty;\ cd\ "${_f}";\ svn\ up\ "${_f}"') source=( $(printf "_svn://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/trunk/%s " "${_files[@]}") ) md5sums=('SKIP' 'SKIP')

#pkgver() #{ # cd ${_files[0]} # local _ver="$(svnversion)" # printf "r%s" "${_ver//[[:alpha:]]}" #}

#package() #{ # mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/opt/freedict-tools" # cp -r "${_files[@]}" "${pkgdir}/opt/freedict-tools/" #}