[pacman-dev] makepkg symlink dereference issue (was: 3.1 release, pacman-git builds, etc.)

[Dan McGee]

On 8/23/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:13:16AM +0100, Andrew Fyfe wrote:
> > I've built quite a few packages with makepkg-3.1 and it appears to be
> > working ok :)
> >
>
> I thought it worked since I first tried it on pacman-git PKGBUILD.
> But it actually fails with most PKGBUILDs using source tarballs.
>
>
> >From 223d5606cab31c8695b9516ba21434da5529dedf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:00:41 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] makepkg : add -L (--dereference) to file.
>
> makepkg didn't correctly detect the type of the archive
> since it didn't dereference symlinks, and so failed
> to extract the source tarball.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>

Pulled this, thanks.

-Dan