[aur-general] avoid usage of fakeroot: always use of build() and package() (Was: application as a TU)

vlad vla at uni-bonn.de
Sun Nov 22 06:23:27 EST 2009


Hi all,

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:14:52AM +0100, hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:12:24 +1000
> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > If it breaks stuff, then you should tell upstream that they makefile
> > is crap.
> 
> So I guess this means it breaks?
> I usually do. You'd be surprised how many don't know about DESTDIR and
> use cp.

However, "install" is quite inconvenient when copying directories with many
files inside. Simply running "cp" and then changing permissions with
"
find ${pkgdir}/.../ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ${pkgdir}/.../ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
"
is a reasonable workaround, at least for me.
Vlad
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