On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila <vodoo0904@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> At Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 07:38 Ray Rashif wrote: >>> >>>> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/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. >> >> this is all fine and dandy to me. however one little bug: >> >> PKGDEST="." makepkg >> >> will fail due the the fact that the real package will be overridden by >> the symlink. result is a circular symbolic link. makepkg should >> check for this [corner] case, and simply not create the link. >> >> i needed this for a script that automatically builds a package with >> the option to install and/or push to AUR. i wanted to sandbox it so >> it would not be affected by the user's makepkg.conf settings. >> >> workaround by making a dummy folder called "out" and sending the >> package there instead. > > Wouldn't just setting PKGDEST to nothing instead of "." cover this? 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 problems with trying to use relative paths as PKGDEST: ==> ERROR: You do not have write permission to store packages in ./pkg/out. Aborting... but i do of course. C Anthony
