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

[vlad]

Hi Allen,

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 09:30:39PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> vlad wrote:
> >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
> 
> read "man install":
> e.g.
> install -t $pkgdir/target src/dir/*
> 
This works only if there are only files in that directory. Subfolders
are not copied. So one has to run "install" for each folder. "cp" copies
everything - files and folders.

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