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

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 23/06/10 10:47, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Possibly...   I do not use "makepkg -i" as I use "makepkg -sr" so it removed
> the makedepends that will be unneeded in the future.   Using "makepkg -c"
> clean up the dangling symlinks.

It is also a very helpful symlink for those of us that like to run
namcap after building to check the package.

-Dan