[aur-general] Use of sudo in pkgbuild

[Laurie Clark-Michalek]

I was planning to use a little .install file:

post_install() {
  gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor
}


2009/4/8 Dan Vratil <progdan at progdansoft.com>

> According to the Makefile it seems, the cache can be disabled:
>
>        @if test ! $(CACHE_DISABLE) ; then \
>                echo -e "$(MAGENTA)updating:    $(SMOOTHBLUE)icon cache" ;\
>                gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor;\
>        fi
>
>
> Try
> make DESTDIR=$pkgdir CACHE_DISABLE install
> or
> make DESTDIR=$pkgdir CACHE_DISABLE=true install
>
> I don't know how exactly 'test' works, so I don't know which value is
> expected
> in $(CACHE_DISABLE)
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:06:14 Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote:
> > 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
> > > ICQ 249163429
> > > Jabber progdan at jabber.cz
> > > Tel. +420 732 326 870
>
> --
> ---------------------------------
> Dan Vrátil
> progdan at progdansoft.com
> ICQ 249163429
> Jabber progdan at jabber.cz
> Tel. +420 732 326 870
>