[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/1] makepkg: relax package building for new directory symlink handling

[Andrew Gregory]

On 12/31/14 at 03:45pm, Christian Hesse wrote:
> From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> 
> pacman changed directory symlink handling, resulting some packages to
> fail installing with conflicts. This relaxes the situation as symlinks
> are created before package() and removed after, resulting in file always
> being installed to correct locations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> ---
>  scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> index 0db9912..2d4b0fd 100644
> --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> @@ -1738,7 +1738,20 @@ run_package() {
>  		pkgfunc="package_$1"
>  	fi
>  
> +	ln -s usr/bin "$pkgdir"/bin
> +	ln -s usr/lib "$pkgdir"/lib
> +	ln -s usr/lib "$pkgdir"/lib64
> +	ln -s usr/bin "$pkgdir"/sbin
> +	ln -s lib "$pkgdir"/usr/lib64
> +	ln -s ../man "$pkgdir"/usr/local/share/man
> +	ln -s bin "$pkgdir"/usr/sbin
> +	ln -s ../run/lock "$pkgdir"/var/lock
> +	ln -s spool/mail "$pkgdir"/var/mail
> +	ln -s ../run "$pkgdir"/var/run
> +
>  	run_function_safe "$pkgfunc"
> +
> +	rm "$pkgdir"/{bin,lib,lib64,sbin,usr/{lib64,local/share/man,sbin},var/{lock,mail,run}}
>  }
>  
>  build_id() {
> -- 
> 2.2.1

NACK.  makepkg is not arch-specific; other distros may not have those
symlinks.

apg