[aur-general] deletion request

[atilla ontas]

If i get it right, you want to create directories and copy files. Then why
not use "install" command?
Like;

install -d -m 755 $srcdir/foo-version/src/foo.so $pkgdir/usr/lib/foo/foo.so


2013/2/23 David Adler <david.jo.adler at gmail.com>

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Johannes Löthberg
> <kyrias at archlinux.info> wrote:
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> > On 02/23/2013 09:22 PM, David Adler wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Johannes Löthberg
> >> <kyrias at archlinux.info> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 02/23/2013 08:41 PM, David Adler wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> To the contrary, having it installed to a not user-writable
> >>>> place might distract from the fact that this example-preset
> >>>> exists to (and often even needs to) be customised.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If it's just an example, wouldn't it make more sense to just
> >>> install it to /usr/share for the user to copy it to where he
> >>> wants it?
> >>
> >>
> >> That's how it was handled up to now, installed to /usr/share. I'd
> >> have to find a way to install an entire directory tree, including
> >> lots of files and some empty dirs, without maintaining
> >> Makefile.am's and such for every dir. Maybe I'm missing something
> >> and there's a simple way to recursively install a directory tree.
> >> Despite using google and reading quite a few docs on make and
> >> autools I didn't find a simple solution. Pointers are welcome.
> >> Installing it to /usr/share as a packed tarball would not give any
> >> benefit IMHO.
> >>
> >> This is sort of an upstream issue. As things are now, I see no way
> >> to easily have it installed. If this changes in the future, I'll
> >> upload a new package; for now I suggest it be deleted.
> >>
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >
> > Wait, do you need to actually do anything with the files before
> > installing, or does it just copy the files when running make install?
>
> Just copying. As simple as it sounds, I didn't find a simple solution,
> but it's not unlikely that I'm missing the obvious.
>
> regards
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