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

[Laszlo Papp]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Ray Rashif wrote:
>>
>> 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().
>>
>
> Huh...  it looks the right way to create symlinks in a PKGBUILD to me.

Me too, and I saw this usage in core/extra/community repositories too.

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp