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

[Ray Rashif]

On 30 June 2010 01:38, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at extof.me> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> beh, i thought you were onto something... i didn't look at the makepkg
> sources, but it is treating PKGDEST='"" as if it was never set.  so,
> no dice :-(
>
> however, if i use an absolute path (instead of ".") it works alright.
> in fact, i seem to have general problems with trying to use relative
> paths as PKGDEST:
>
> ==> ERROR: You do not have write permission to store packages in ./pkg/out.
>    Aborting...
>
> but i do of course.

PKGDEST=`pwd` makepkg

I do that all the time.


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