The missing 'version' file looks to be the issue, and explains why zef worked when installing under under 'site' but not 'vendor': during my testing I think I managed to delete the version file from vendor...
Oops. That means I've created a load of noise (but hopefully someone might benefit from it down the line...). This isn't related to the PKGBUILD file itself (where version was being deleted); that's a chroot/shadow dir so the removal would be to prevent a file conflict, not directly affect files on the filesystem. However, 'install-dist.pl' takes care of that so the section isn't needed anyway. Thank you for looking into this. :) On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 07:12:17 -0700, n...@detonation.org wrote: > The .e there is absolutely correct as depending on the repository > format version $lookup may be a file or directory. We switched to a > directory with version 1. So the .f will fail on a current repo > version which explains the failure in install-core-dist.pl > > The real question is not why $lookup ends up being a directory (that's > the normal case) but why we don't detect that we are dealing with a > version 2 repo. > > The PKGBUILD script posted on https://github.com/ugexe/zef/issues/190 > gives the answer to that: > > rm -f "$pkgdir/usr/share/perl6/vendor/version" > > Of course, by deleting that file, you rob rakudo of a vital piece of > information. Without that it runs on the wrong assumption that it's > dealing with a version 0 repository and that $lookup must be a file. > > There's really nothing we could or should do here. As much as I'd like > us to throw a more useful error message here, that's simply not > possible without slowing down all normal uses. And trying to make > rakudo resilient against random files missing sounds like an uphill > battle. > > Please just remove the offending lines from the script. This, too > looks highly suspicious: > msg2 'Removing redundant precomp file dependencies...' > _precomp=($(pacman -Qqg perl6 | grep -v zef | pacman -Qql - | grep > -E 'dist|precomp' || true)) > for _pc in "${_precomp[@]}"; do > [[ -f "$pkgdir/$_pc" ]] && rm -f "$pkgdir/$_pc" > done > > Considering that the spec file for openSUSE does not delete anything, > I suggest starting with an absolute minimum of a build script. The > install-dist.pl call may be quite sufficient. openSUSE does have quite > strict packaging guidelines, too. > https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/devel:languages:perl6/perl6- > Inline-Perl5/perl6-Inline-Perl5.spec?expand=1
