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 vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org 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

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 anth...@extof.me wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org 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

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 ataraxia...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org wrote: At Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 07:38 Ray Rashif wrote: [1]

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 anth...@extof.me wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ray Kohler ataraxia...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org wrote: At

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

2010-06-29 Thread Pierre Chapuis
C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me 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

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 catw...@archlinux.us wrote: C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me 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

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 Chapuiscatw...@archlinux.us wrote: C Anthony Risingeranth...@extof.me 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

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

2010-06-25 Thread Ray Rashif
On 25 June 2010 01:37, Attila vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org 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

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

2010-06-25 Thread Ray Rashif
On 26 June 2010 00:59, Attila vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org 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

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 behavior?

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 to...@lbjackson.com 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

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 Andres P
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Attila vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org 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.

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

2010-06-23 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

2010-06-23 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 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 behavior?

[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

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 -

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 al...@archlinux.org 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

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 -

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

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 McRaeal...@archlinux.org 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

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 al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 23/06/10 10:47, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Allan McRaeal...@archlinux.org  wrote: On 23/06/10 07:01, Attila wrote: Hello together, since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the

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 there. And

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 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 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 after