Re: rubygems, the arch way and the aur

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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20/05/12 21:27, Kwpolska wrote:
>> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 3:58 AM, martin kalcher
>> <martin.kalcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hmm.. i will figure out what makepkg actually needs to build the gem
>>> packages. Does it call pacman, when i call it with -d? This would a problem
>>> in my case.
>>
>> -d DOES call pacman,
>
> WRONG.
>
>> but you can modify makepkg in order to (a) not do
>> so; (b) work under another distro (that won't be too hard, because:)
>>
>>> # file -i does not work on Mac OSX unless legacy mode is set
>>> export COMMAND_MODE='legacy'
>>  -- makepkg; lines 37-38
>>
>> And in terms of the "-d calls pacman" thing, here comes output from a
>> modded makepkg, with $PACMAN (variable holding pacman command)
>> replaced with 'echo PACMAN': every time.  Run under Arch, as I don't
>> have access to other distros. (yes, my shell server is running Arch.
>> No, it isn't my idea.  But it is awesome.)
>>
>> And in case you ask: this is ruby-jekyll with a different name.  I had
>> to drop all the building, because my server doesn't have ruby.
>>
>> [kwpolska@*** testpkg]% makepkg-kw -d
>> PACMAN
>> ==> Making package: testpkg 0.11.2-1 (Sun May 20 13:11:07 CEST 2012)
>> ==> WARNING: Skipping dependency checks.
>> ==> Retrieving Sources...
>>   -> Found jekyll-0.11.2.gem
>>   -> Found LICENSE
>> ==> Validating source files with md5sums...
>>     jekyll-0.11.2.gem ... Passed
>>     LICENSE ... Passed
>> ==> Extracting Sources...
>> ==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
>> ==> Entering fakeroot environment...
>> PACMAN
>> ==> Starting build()...
>> BUILD, my server unfortunately doesn't have ruby
>> ==> Tidying install...
>>   -> Purging unwanted files...
>>   -> Compressing man and info pages...
>>   -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
>> ==> Creating package...
>>   -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
>>   -> Compressing package...
>> ==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
>> ==> Finished making: testpkg 0.11.2-1 (Sun May 20 13:11:09 CEST 2012)
>> [kwpolska@*** testpkg]%
>>
>> If anyone from the makepkg team is reading, would you please mind:
>> (a) making less use of pacman;
>
> You are doing it wrong...   Remove the "run_pacman" function and you
> will see when it is called.  Hint: never when using -d...

I am aware of that, too.  I thought it failed to work and therefore
tried that way.

>> (b) adding -v on lines 1292-1295 in order to inform us that the
>> compressors are still working?
>
> Huh...  Anyway, never by default, but you will be able to configure the
> compression options with pacman-4.1.

And that's awesome.  (normally I just modify the xz line, but I need
to do it every time pacman updates itself)
>
> Allan
>
>



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