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

[Ray Kohler]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at extof.me> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila <vodoo0904 at sonnenkinder.org> wrote:
>> At Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 07:38 Ray Rashif wrote:
>>
>>> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-dev@archlinux.org/msg03794.html
>>
>> Thanks for this information. It seems that at no point it was thought about a
>> config variable and therefore we have to live with it.
>
> this is all fine and dandy to me. however one little bug:
>
> PKGDEST="." makepkg
>
> will fail due the the fact that the real package will be overridden by
> the symlink.  result is a circular symbolic link.  makepkg should
> check for this [corner] case, and simply not create the link.
>
> i needed this for a script that automatically builds a package with
> the option to install and/or push to AUR.  i wanted to sandbox it so
> it would not be affected by the user's makepkg.conf settings.
>
> workaround by making a dummy folder called "out" and sending the
> package there instead.

Wouldn't just setting PKGDEST to nothing instead of "." cover this?