Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-29 Thread Allan McRae
On 30/06/10 06:08, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Pierre Chapuis wrote: "C Anthony Risinger" a écrit : beh, i thought you were onto something... i didn't look at the makepkg sources, but it is treating PKGDEST='"" as if it was never set. so, no dice :-( however

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-29 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > > "C Anthony Risinger" a écrit : > >>beh, i thought you were onto something... i didn't look at the makepkg >>sources, but it is treating PKGDEST='"" as if it was never set.  so, >>no dice :-( >> >>however, if i use an absolute path (instea

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-29 Thread Pierre Chapuis
"C Anthony Risinger" a écrit : >beh, i thought you were onto something... i didn't look at the makepkg >sources, but it is treating PKGDEST='"" as if it was never set. so, >no dice :-( > >however, if i use an absolute path (instead of ".") it works alright. >in fact, i seem to have general prob

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-29 Thread Ray Rashif
On 30 June 2010 01:38, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila wrote: At Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 07:38 Ray Rashif wrote: > [1] http://ww

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-29 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila wrote: >>> At Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 07:38 Ray Rashif wrote: >>> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-...@archlinux.org/msg03794.html

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-29 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila wrote: >> At Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 07:38 Ray Rashif wrote: >> >>> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-...@archlinux.org/msg03794.html >> >> Thanks for this information. It seems that at no poi

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-29 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila wrote: > At Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 07:38 Ray Rashif wrote: > >> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-...@archlinux.org/msg03794.html > > Thanks for this information. It seems that at no point it was thought about a > config variable and therefore we have t

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-26 Thread Attila
At Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 07:38 Ray Rashif wrote: > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-...@archlinux.org/msg03794.html Thanks for this information. It seems that at no point it was thought about a config variable and therefore we have to live with it. See you, Attila

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-25 Thread Ray Rashif
On 26 June 2010 00:59, Attila wrote: > At Freitag, 25. Juni 2010 08:29 Ray Rashif wrote: > >> In what kind of situation would someone have something against that symlink? > > If you don't ordered it? -) Okay without joking: I think everyone will have > something against a thing what he never needs

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-25 Thread Attila
At Freitag, 25. Juni 2010 08:29 Ray Rashif wrote: > In what kind of situation would someone have something against that symlink? If you don't ordered it? -) Okay without joking: I think everyone will have something against a thing what he never needs and i'm surprised that no one recognize this

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-24 Thread Ray Rashif
On 25 June 2010 01:37, Attila wrote: > At Donnerstag, 24. Juni 2010 14:39 Hilton Medeiros wrote: > >> Just remove it: rm -f goddamn-symlink.so >> What is exactly the problem with it anyway? > > Your hint is not very productive because you confound cause and effect. The > problem is not to delete t

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-24 Thread Attila
At Donnerstag, 24. Juni 2010 20:06 Andres P wrote: > ...but that's the whole point of bash/zsh completion. Do you put links to $HOME > in /etc or use CDPATH? I mean, modern shells have facilities so let's use them. You be right and if you look at my other posting my favorite is that pacman can

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-24 Thread Andres P
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Attila wrote: > For me this link is now a good help (and memory) to run namcap which i forgot > in > the most cases and therefore i found my peace with it. But i can understand > the > wish for a config variable if some don't need this. ...but that's the whole p

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-24 Thread Attila
At Donnerstag, 24. Juni 2010 14:39 Hilton Medeiros wrote: > Just remove it: rm -f goddamn-symlink.so > What is exactly the problem with it anyway? Your hint is not very productive because you confound cause and effect. The problem is not to delete this file because i think everyone here can use

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-24 Thread Hilton Medeiros
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:25:54 -0500 ProfessorTomoe wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 19:08 +0200, Attila wrote: > > > > Is there a way to disable the symbolic link creation? I install > > > aur packages using makepkg -ci, but the -ci switch combo does not > > > delete the symlink. I don't want the

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-24 Thread ProfessorTomoe
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 19:08 +0200, Attila wrote: > > Is there a way to disable the symbolic link creation? I install aur > > packages using makepkg -ci, but the -ci switch combo does not delete > > the symlink. I don't want them created in the first place, so can I > > somehow turn off this beha

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-23 Thread Attila
At Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010 14:20 ProfessorTomoe wrote: > Is there a way to disable the symbolic link creation? I install aur > packages using makepkg -ci, but the -ci switch combo does not delete > the symlink. I don't want them created in the first place, so can I > somehow turn off this behavi

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-23 Thread Attila
At Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010 07:26 Allan McRae wrote: >> Or do you mean that a "makepkg -c" will clean elder invalid symlinks? > > This one. Is there a way to delete not only elder symlinks and the destination too? Could be very nice but is not a must.-) See you, Attila

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-23 Thread ProfessorTomoe
Is there a way to disable the symbolic link creation? I install aur packages using makepkg -ci, but the -ci switch combo does *not* delete the symlink. I don't want them created in the first place, so can I somehow turn off this behavior?

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Attila
At Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010 06:06 Dan McGee wrote: > It is also a very helpful symlink for those of us that like to run > namcap after building to check the package. I must correct myself and have a from my view better idea for this. I suggest a new option "-n" (or "--namcap") which runs namacp a

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Attila
At Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010 06:06 Dan McGee wrote: > It is also a very helpful symlink for those of us that like to run > namcap after building to check the package. That is an advantage ... because i forgot in the most cases to run it and now the motivation to do it is higher.-) See you, Attila

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Allan McRae
On 23/06/10 15:11, Attila wrote: Or do you mean that a "makepkg -c" will clean elder invalid symlinks? This one.

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Attila
At Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010 05:48 Allan McRae wrote: > Possibly... I do not use "makepkg -i" as I use "makepkg -sr" so it > removed the makedepends that will be unneeded in the future. Using > "makepkg -c" clean up the dangling symlinks. I even use "makepkg -c" too and the symlink is still t

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 23/06/10 10:47, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Allan McRae  wrote: >>> >>> On 23/06/10 07:01, Attila wrote: Hello together, since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package fil

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Allan McRae
On 23/06/10 10:47, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 23/06/10 07:01, Attila wrote: Hello together, since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package file in the directory of the PKGBUILD. Example: # ls -l *.gz opera-snapshot-10.60-6378

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Allan McRae
On 23/06/10 11:55, Baho Utot wrote: On 06/22/10 19:31, Allan McRae wrote: On 23/06/10 07:01, Attila wrote: Hello together, since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package file in the directory of the PKGBUILD. Example: # ls -l *.gz opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.ta

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Baho Utot
On 06/22/10 19:31, Allan McRae wrote: On 23/06/10 07:01, Attila wrote: Hello together, since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package file in the directory of the PKGBUILD. Example: # ls -l *.gz opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz -> /server/work/archlinux/repo/o

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 23/06/10 07:01, Attila wrote: >> >> Hello together, >> >> since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package file >> in the >> directory of the PKGBUILD. Example: >> >> # ls -l *.gz >> opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Allan McRae
On 23/06/10 07:01, Attila wrote: Hello together, since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package file in the directory of the PKGBUILD. Example: # ls -l *.gz opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz -> /server/work/archlinux/repo/opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.t

[arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-22 Thread Attila
Hello together, since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package file in the directory of the PKGBUILD. Example: # ls -l *.gz opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz -> /server/work/archlinux/repo/opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz My differences to makepkg.