[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: fix --allsource when remote source files do not reside in SRCDEST

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca> wrote:
> Xavier wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca> wrote:
>>> When using the --allsource option, it was assumed that remote source
>>> files reside in SRCDEST which is not necessarily always the case.
>>>
>>
>> I am not familiar with the code, but why aren't all source files in srcdest ?
>> I thought and assumed they were.
>
> If SRCDEST is defined in makepkg.conf, there are actually two possible locations where (remote) source files can be saved to. They can either reside in the configured SRCDEST (which is where makepkg puts downloaded sources) or in the same directory as the PKGBUILD, and moreover, the file in the PKGBUILD directory is favored over the one in SRCDEST.
>
> Several functions (check_checksums, extract_sources and probably more) use something like the following to get the correct file name:
>
>>                               if [ ! -f "$file" ] ; then
>>                                       if [ ! -f "$SRCDEST/$file" ] ; then
>>                                               echo "$(gettext "NOT FOUND")" >&2
>>                                               errors=1
>>                                               found=0
>>                                       else
>>                                               file="$SRCDEST/$file"
>>                                       fi
>>                               fi
>
> This bug can be easily confirmed by running makepkg --allsource in a PKGBUILD directory (obviously the PKGBUILD should use remote sources), extract the generated source package, remove the sources of this package from SRCDEST if defined in makepkg.conf, change into the extracted directory and run makepkg --allsource (-f) again.

So rather than adding more of this code elsewhere, can we maybe factor
some of this out into a function? It would also be better to use
$startdir/$file to prevent relative path issues from biting us.

I'm envisioning some sort of function that takes any item from the
source array (url or filename) and returns a absolute file path or
something if the file isn't in either of the two places. Does this
seem plausible?

-Dan