[aur-general] How to handle installers in PKGBUILDs

[Michael Schubert]

Thank you for the suggestions. I will email the authors and ask if they can
provide an archive instead of the installer.

2011/2/9 Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de>

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:37:16PM +0000, Michael Schubert wrote:
> > I tried the following:
> >
> > $ cat CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin | tar -xzvf -
> > $ cat CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin | tar -xjvf -
> > $ cat CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin | tar -xJvf -
> >
> > each of which failed with "unknown archive type".
>
> $ file
> CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel
> 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
> $ strings CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin | grep '$Info'
> $Info: This file is packed with the UPX executable packer
> http://upx.sf.net $
> $ upx -d CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin > /dev/null
> upx: CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin: CantUnpackException: header
> corrupted 2
>
> Looks like an UPX-packed executable with an additional wrapper (might be
> another layer of encryption/compression) or a modified version of UPX.
> This is probably not so easy to unpack and needs more investigation.
>