On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 10:08 +0200, Firmicus wrote: > Jan de Groot wrote: > > Somehow the texlive-bin PKGBUILD doesn't provide the same binary package > > that is in the repository. I just committed a gnome-unstable directory > > with 3 patches that fixes build against poppler 0.12, but building it > > with makechrootpkg results in a lot of missing binaries. Also, I > > couldn't build texlive-bin without adding some force commands to ln and > > rm. > > Thanks for reporting this Jan. I'll happily loot into this. But can you > send me some more details first? > > Here are the facts from my side: > > texlive-bin 2009.4-2 was indeed created with "makepkg -R" on the basis > of the previous build (pkgrel=1) because I only needed to add two > missing symlinks for texlua and texluac (see FS#16486) and did not feel > like rebuilding the whole goddam thing for something as simple as that > (ca. 30 minutes of compilation at full processor last costs a lot of > electricity you know ;) and my fans get real noisy too!)... > > So yes, I did fix that by hand: I unpacked the previously built packages > under $pkgdir, created the symlinks, added the corresponding missing > lines in the PKGBUILD, and then repackaged. I can assure you that the > previous build (2009.4-1) was generated from the PKGBUILD then in trunk. > But it was NOT built with makechrootpkg. Sometimes (rarely) makechroot > is not a good idea. I know that building subversion and gvim with > makechroot can yield incorrect packages. In the particular case of > texlive-bin, which is very complex, I need to be in full control and a > chroot environment does not provide this condition. But I am open to > your criticism if you think this is not a good approach ;) > > Yet I am nevertheless surprised that texlive-bin does not build well > with makechrootpkg. I certainly does in a normal environment.
The fixes were minor. It took me several rebuilds to find this out, but here's a list: - The symlinks you created weren't in the PKGBUILD correctly, I added the correct ones, but didn't remove the wrong ones - The command that generates all the symlinks depends on texlive-bin being installed on the system, I fixed it by adding $pkgdir/usr/bin to $PATH Besides the two fixes, nothing special was done to the package.
