[aur-general] PKGBUILD - custom DLAGENT - failed to create symbolic link

[respiranto]

Sorry, I used the wrong DLAGENTS line in my last email.

On 2016-09-26 11:12, respiranto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to package the tools necessary to compile the freedict
> dictionaries as DICT files (and subsequently the dictionaries
> themselves). The whole PKGBUILD is to be found at the end of this message.
> 
> Since the sources for all the directories and the tools are provided in
> one single repository on github.com, I use svn to extract exclusively
> the respective necessary files.
> 
> This required a little fiddling, but I finally got it working using a
> strange custom DLAGENT ¹:
> DLAGENTS+=('_svn::/usr/bin/bash -c _u="%u";\ _u="${_u#_svn://}";\
> _d="${_u%/*}";\ _f="${_u##*/}";\ /usr/bin/svn\ checkout\
> "https://${_d}"\ "%o"\ --depth\ empty;\ cd\ "%o";\ svn\ up\ "%o"')

corrected:
> DLAGENTS+=('_svn::/usr/bin/bash -c _u="%u";\ _u="${_u#_svn://}";\ _d="${_u%/*}";\ _f="${_u##*/}";\ /usr/bin/svn\ checkout\ "https://${_d}"\ "${_f}"\ --depth\ empty;\ cd\ "${_f}";\ svn\ up\ "${_f}"')

> 
> Anyways, this works as far as downloading is concerned. However, upon
> running makepkg, I get the following error:
> ==> Extracting sources...
> ln: failed to create symbolic link '<somedir>/src/' -> '': No such file
> or directory
> ln: failed to create symbolic link '<somedir>/src/' -> '': No such file
> or directory
> 
> The problem appears to be that makepkg stores empty names for the files
> downloaded with the custom DLAGENT.
> 
> Does somebody know the cause of this? Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Einhard Leichtfuß
> 
> 
> ¹ For some reason the '\ 's are necessary, quoting the whole bash skript
> inside did not work (properly escaped, of course).
> 

corrected PKGBUILD:
-------------------
> # Maintainer: Einhard Leichtfuß <archer at respiranto.de>
> _files=(tools Makefile)
> _pkgname=dict-freedict-tools
> pkgname=${_pkgname}-svn
> pkgver=r1420
> pkgrel=1
> pkgdesc="Tools to compile the Freedict dictionaries"
> arch=('any')
> url="http://www.freedict.org/"
> license=('GPL')
> makedepends=('subversion')
> provides=(${_pkgname})
> conflicts=(${_pkgname})
> DLAGENTS+=('_svn::/usr/bin/bash -c _u="%u";\ _u="${_u#_svn://}";\ _d="${_u%/*}";\ _f="${_u##*/}";\ /usr/bin/svn\ checkout\ "https://${_d}"\ "${_f}"\ --depth\ empty;\ cd\ "${_f}";\ svn\ up\ "${_f}"')
> source=( $(printf "_svn://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/trunk/%s "
> "${_files[@]}") )
> md5sums=('SKIP' 'SKIP')
> 
> #pkgver()
> #{
> #	cd ${_files[0]}
> #	local _ver="$(svnversion)"
> #	printf "r%s" "${_ver//[[:alpha:]]}"
> #}
> 
> #package()
> #{
> #	mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/opt/freedict-tools"
> #	cp -r "${_files[@]}" "${pkgdir}/opt/freedict-tools/"
> #}
>