[aur-general] How to include sources from sourceforge + creating links not provided by package

Ray Rashif schivmeister at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 01:13:07 EST 2009


2009/11/24 Ranguvar <ranguvar at archlinux.us>

> On links, you can just ln -s.  For the first argument to ln, don't specify
> $pkgdir.
> This is correct for a PKGBUILD, for example:
>
> ln -s /opt/foo/foobin "$pkgdir/usr/bin/foobin"
>
> The link will be removed on uninstall.
>
> Hope that helps,
> -- Ranguvar
>

Just in case the OP takes this literally (and I have reason to believe so) -
that is _wrong_ for a _PKGBUILD_, correct for an install scriptlet i.e
foobar.install; post_install(), post_remove().


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