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

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 20:47:04 EDT 2010


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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

Wouldn't those who want to do that do a makepkg -i? The thing about
leaving a symbolic link is that the next time you do pacman -Sc its
still there. Scripting removal of dead links is dead simple though, so
not a problem for me.


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