[aur-general] Incorrect name when downloading from source=()
Hello, To package cellwriter, I need to download this patch[1]. But once downloaded, the name of the file is "attachment?aid=-5287197620305474653&name=cellwriter-1.3.4-cellwidget-dont-disable-xinput.diff" instead of just "cellwriter-1.3.4-cellwidget-dont-disable-xinput.diff". - Is it a big problem ? I mean if another user do not use wget will my PKGBUILD work for him ? - Is there a way to force a correct behavior ? [1] http://cellwriter.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=-5287197620305474653&name=cellwriter-1.3.4-cellwidget-dont-disable-xinput.diff
2009/6/16 Côme Pruvost <come.pruvost@gmail.com>:
You can always download the patch, rename it and put in the source tarball (makepkg --source) -- Abhishek
Yeah, finally I think this is a good idea. I don't like adding too much to the tarball, but here it is the only way to ensure it will behave correctly for anyone... Thanks for the suggestion.
Abhishek Dasgupta wrote:
Or use something like cellwritter.diff::http://cellwriter.googlecode.com/... in your source array. The downloaded file will get the name specified before the "::". Allan
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:07, Cilyan Olowen<gaknar@gmail.com> wrote:
For future reference, this and many other helpful tips are in the PKGBUILD manpage :)
Btw, I'm pretty close friends with the author of cellwriter. If he needs to do a general patch upstream or something, I'm sure I can get him to. Anything up? Cheers, -AT
2009/6/16 Andrei Thorp <garoth@gmail.com>:
It seems the patch is indeed in discussion. Of course for now some are experiencing crashes, but the solution given by the patch is discussable. Well at least that's what I understood. I think the author is aware of that problem as the patch comes from is official bugtracker and he affected himself to the issue. I decided to apply the patch because if a developer can focus on what is good for its software, I think a packager should focus on usability. And from that point of view, a bad solution is temporarily better than software crashes making it unusable. And by the way, indeed, the answer was in the PKGBUILD man, I'm sorry I always forget that PKGBUILD has a man page, I usually only check wiki. I try to mark that in my head for next time ;) Cilyan
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Cilyan Olowen<gaknar@gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, well. I'll breifly mention it to him, but otherwise leave it alone. Cheers, -AT
participants (7)
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Abhishek Dasgupta
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Allan McRae
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Andrei Thorp
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Cilyan Olowen
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Côme Pruvost
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Daenyth Blank
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nathan owe.