[arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

[Allan McRae]

On 23/06/10 07:01, Attila wrote:
> Hello together,
>
> since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package file in the
> directory of the PKGBUILD. Example:
>
> # ls -l *.gz
> opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz ->
> /server/work/archlinux/repo/opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz
>
> My differences to makepkg.conf.pacnew be this:
>
> MAKEFLAGS="-j2"
> CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
> CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
> BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc !color !ccache)
> OPTIONS=(strip !docs libtool emptydirs zipman purge)
> PKGDEST=/server/work/archlinux/repo
> PACKAGER="Attila<SysAdmin at hunnen>"
> PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.gz'
>
> [/server/work is a cifs mount point]
>
> Have i overseen something in the makepkg.conf to control this or does no one
> have this problem ... or is this a new feature which have to be so?

New feature.   If PKGDEST is set, it creates a symbolic link to the 
packages in the working directory.  I think the idea was that most of 
the time you will want to "pacman -U <pkg>" at the end of the build and 
that save you typing the whole PKGDEST path.

Allan