[arch-general] rubygems, the arch way and the aur

[Allan McRae]

On 20/05/12 21:27, Kwpolska wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 3:58 AM, martin kalcher
> <martin.kalcher at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm.. i will figure out what makepkg actually needs to build the gem
>> packages. Does it call pacman, when i call it with -d? This would a problem
>> in my case.
> 
> -d DOES call pacman, 

WRONG.

> but you can modify makepkg in order to (a) not do
> so; (b) work under another distro (that won't be too hard, because:)
> 
>> # file -i does not work on Mac OSX unless legacy mode is set
>> export COMMAND_MODE='legacy'
>  -- makepkg; lines 37-38
> 
> And in terms of the "-d calls pacman" thing, here comes output from a
> modded makepkg, with $PACMAN (variable holding pacman command)
> replaced with 'echo PACMAN': every time.  Run under Arch, as I don't
> have access to other distros. (yes, my shell server is running Arch.
> No, it isn't my idea.  But it is awesome.)
> 
> And in case you ask: this is ruby-jekyll with a different name.  I had
> to drop all the building, because my server doesn't have ruby.
> 
> [kwpolska@*** testpkg]% makepkg-kw -d
> PACMAN
> ==> Making package: testpkg 0.11.2-1 (Sun May 20 13:11:07 CEST 2012)
> ==> WARNING: Skipping dependency checks.
> ==> Retrieving Sources...
>   -> Found jekyll-0.11.2.gem
>   -> Found LICENSE
> ==> Validating source files with md5sums...
>     jekyll-0.11.2.gem ... Passed
>     LICENSE ... Passed
> ==> Extracting Sources...
> ==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
> ==> Entering fakeroot environment...
> PACMAN
> ==> Starting build()...
> BUILD, my server unfortunately doesn't have ruby
> ==> Tidying install...
>   -> Purging unwanted files...
>   -> Compressing man and info pages...
>   -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
> ==> Creating package...
>   -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
>   -> Compressing package...
> ==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
> ==> Finished making: testpkg 0.11.2-1 (Sun May 20 13:11:09 CEST 2012)
> [kwpolska@*** testpkg]%
> 
> If anyone from the makepkg team is reading, would you please mind:
> (a) making less use of pacman;

You are doing it wrong...   Remove the "run_pacman" function and you
will see when it is called.  Hint: never when using -d...

> (b) adding -v on lines 1292-1295 in order to inform us that the
> compressors are still working?

Huh...  Anyway, never by default, but you will be able to configure the
compression options with pacman-4.1.

Allan