[aur-general] makepkg and unzip

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Tue May 6 16:12:43 EDT 2008


stefan-husmann at t-online.de wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> some Java programs follow the windows install method "put everything
> into a directory", and the "Everything" is shipped via zipfile. So
> sometimes it is easier to unzip (or unbsdtar) the whole bunch to
> $startdir/pkg/somewhere rather than to $startdir/src/somewhere.
> 
> example (not yet in AUR)
>

Ok, thanks to you and Lukáš Jirkovský for providing real examples :)

In any cases, it's a good idea to check if it works with bsdtar because 
this is installed on any arch system, unlike unzip.




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