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

[Baho Utot]

On 06/22/10 19:31, Allan McRae 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
>

What about SRCDEST ?
Creating a sym link from source package to the build directory would be 
handy as well.