[aur-general] Use of sudo in pkgbuild

Mathias Burén mathias.buren at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 16:09:54 EDT 2009


Perhaps you could edit the makefile or add some parameters somewhere?

2009/4/7 Laurie Clark-Michalek <bluepeppers at archlinux.us>

> The pkg will not build if I don't have sudo enabled. It's because
> gtk-update-icon-cache is used during the make install, regardless of
> directory. See the error message below.
>
> gtk-update-icon-cache: Failed to open file
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/.icon-theme.cache : Permission denied
> make: *** [install] Error 1
> ==> ERROR: Build Failed.
>
>
> 2009/4/8 Dan Vratil <progdan at progdansoft.com>
>
> > You don't need to use SUDO for `make install` as you have write
> privileges
> > into $pkgdir folder.
> >
> > On Tuesday 07 April 2009 21:55:38 Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been working on the splashy-creator package (updating it to 2.2),
> > and
> > > had got it working, when I realised I had a potential problem. I needed
> > to
> > > use sudo in the pkgbuild, and so far, I have never seen it used in a
> > > package. Is this OK, and/or is there away to avoid it? Here is my
> package
> > > build for inspection:
> > >
> > > # Contributor: Laurie Clark-Michalek <BluePeppers (at) archlinux (dot)
> > us>
> > >
> > > pkgname=splashy-creator
> > > pkgver=2.2
> > > pkgrel=1
> > > pkgdesc="A tool for creating Splashy themes."
> > > arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
> > > url="
> http://www.nanolx.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34"
> > > license=('GPL3')
> > > depends=('sed' 'pygtk>=2.4' 'python>=2.4' 'splashy')
> > > makedepends=('sudo' 'patch')
> > > source=(http://nanolx.org/free/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2$pkgname.patch)
> > > md5sums=('615033a2cabab0b132ecc9aff2c07a7b'
> > > 'b8095120f36b5f2cc3b1704a7b2e32a6')
> > >
> > > build() {
> > >   cd $srcdir/$pkgname
> > >   ./configure
> > >   patch ./Makefile $srcdir/splashy-creator.patch
> > >   sudo make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install || return 1
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > The patch is just a small one:
> > >
> > > 23c23
> > > <       @mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/usr/bin/
> > > ---
> > >
> > > >       @mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Laurie
> > >
> > > P.S. This is the first time I've used patch, so is the .patch file
> > alright?
> >
> > --
> > ---------------------------------
> > Dan Vrátil
> > progdan at progdansoft.com
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> > Tel. +420 732 326 870
> >
>


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