[arch-general] SRCDEST="/path/to/folder"

[Baho Utot]

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 23:37 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
> > Baho Utot wrote:
> >> I am Building in a clean chroot according to the wiki
> >>
> >> The Chroot sub-directory is /home/Chroot/root
> >>
> >> I have set SRCDEST="/sources" in the makepkg in /home/Chroot/root/etc
> >> and then
> >> mkdir /home/Chroot/root/sources chmod 777 /home/Chroot/root/sources
> >>
> >> Is this correct to get makepkg to store the sources in that
> >> sub-directory?
> >>
> >> It presently doesn't work for me or I did something wrong.
> >>
> >> Can anyone help?
> >>   
> >
> > As far as makepkg goes, it should store the sources in /sources.  But 
> > my guess is makechrootpkg is moving the source files from there to the 
> > directory you launched it from.  Have not actually looked at this though.
> 
> Or an even better explanation (which also could be wrong), it puts them 
> in the rw portion of the union filesystem and that gets cleared.
> 
> I think the message to take from this is that this setup will probably 
> not work...
> 
> Allan
> 
> 

Ok I'll have to fix my build script to do it