[pacman-dev] makepkg: package splitting

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Dec 9 07:32:29 EST 2008


Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ] wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 09.12.2008, 21:57 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae:
>   
>> Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ] wrote:
>>     
>>     
>>> If you give -c to makepkg the pkgdirs of the splitpackages don't get
>>> erased.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Someone is either running makepkg as root or without fakeroot...   
>> Anyway, thats an easy fix.
>>     
>
> I'll tested that again and i forgot to change two of the DESTDIR
> locations to the new home of the pkgdirs... So the missing cleanup was
> actually a stupid user error...
>   

You should only be doing something like "make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install".  
Makepkg points $pkgdir in the right place for each split package.  (I 
will get around to documenting all this at some stage)

Allan





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