Re: [aur-general] avoid usage of fakeroot: always use of build() and package() (Was: application as a TU)

22 Nov 2009

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This works only if there are only files in that directory. Subfolders
are not copied. So one has to run "install" for each folder. "cp" copies
everything - files and folders.
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I wrote a function to handle that at some point which I include in
PKGBUILDs on very rare occasions:

function _install_dir {
  _src_dir=$1
  _dest_dir=$2
  _n=${#_src_dir}
  for _file in $(find $_src_dir -type f)
  do
    _dest_file=${_dest_dir}${_file:$_n}
    install -Dm644 $_file $_dest_file
  done
}

Obviously it could be modified to accept a permissions argument as well.

Xyne