[aur-general] makepkg and unzip

[stefan-husmann at t-online.de]

Hello,

I checked, it works.

So I can only imagine the situation that the upstream build system may
require unzip 
and the package maintainer rejects tweaking of th makefile or whatever
there is.

sincerly Stefan

-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 22:12:43 +0200
Subject: Re: [aur-general] makepkg and unzip
From: Xavier 
To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" 

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.