[aur-general] Use of sudo in pkgbuild

[Laurie Clark-Michalek]

Ok, it's working, and I've uploaded it to the aur:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16781

Thanks for your help

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

> 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
>>
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