[aur-general] How to handle installers in PKGBUILDs

[jesse jaara]

On 9.2.2011 14.08, "Michael Schubert" <mschu.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am already maintaining a couple of PKGBUILDs and wanted to add one
> for CellDesigner, which is used to model biochemical pathways. The
download
> is only available as binary package with its own installer.
>
> Now, I thought that I could use the installer inside a PKGBUILD with
$pkgdir
> as root. However, the installer cross-references some files in others with
> absolute paths, i.e. when the package is installed it still links to the
> build dir instead of the system dir. Because of the way the cross-refs are
> inserted, simple sed'ing these does not work.
>
> The obvious solution would be to use fakeroot/chroot in the $pkgdir and
use
> to to emulate a root directory structure. My question now is: (1) am I on
> the right track and (2) is there any standard way to do this in PKGBUILDs?
>
> I couldn't find any sample PKGBUILDs concerning this issue and the
ArchWiki
> contains no information either.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers, Michael

Usually the installers are shell acripts with a binary tar.gz blob in the
end of the file. This can be cat:ed from the file and piped to tar. This is
what the installer does
Open it and you see how to cat the contents and what else might ne needed