Re: [aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?

2017-08-08 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 08/08/2017 12:14 PM, 张海 via aur-general wrote: > You can probably try stuffing multiple consecutive slashes ('/') and they > should be normalized into one. You can also play with "/./" if the program > wasn't happy with consecutive slashes. 1) Please don't top-post. 2) I think you're trying

Re: [aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?

2017-08-08 Thread 张海 via aur-general
You can probably try stuffing multiple consecutive slashes ('/') and they should be normalized into one. You can also play with "/./" if the program wasn't happy with consecutive slashes. Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general 于2017年8月8日周二 22:39写道： > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at

Re: [aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?

2017-08-08 Thread Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:13 AM, KY Chou wrote: > That's a great solution! > But it doesn't have to be the same length actually. > A shorter path with padded 0x00s should also work fine. > > On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general >

Re: [aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?

2017-08-07 Thread KY Chou via aur-general
That's a great solution! But it doesn't have to be the same length actually. A shorter path with padded 0x00s should also work fine. On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general < aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Eli Schwartz

Re: [aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?

2017-08-06 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 08/06/2017 08:31 PM, Phillip Smith via aur-general wrote: > On 6 August 2017 at 22:21, Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general < > aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > >> >> Is there a workaround for this? >> > > ​It's probably not much cleaner, but perhaps install it to /opt/pulse and > just symlink

Re: [aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?

2017-08-06 Thread Phillip Smith via aur-general
On 6 August 2017 at 22:21, Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general < aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > Is there a workaround for this? > ​It's probably not much cleaner, but perhaps install it to /opt/pulse and just symlink /usr/local/pulse to /opt/pulse? At least it gets the actual files out of

Re: [aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?

2017-08-06 Thread Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general
On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 08/06/2017 08:21 AM, Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general wrote: >> Hello Arch enthusiasts, >> >> I'd like to create a package for Pulse Connect Secure, a popular VPN >> software. Current PKGBUILD can be found at [1]. That

Re: [aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?

2017-08-06 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 08/06/2017 08:21 AM, Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general wrote: > Hello Arch enthusiasts, > > I'd like to create a package for Pulse Connect Secure, a popular VPN > software. Current PKGBUILD can be found at [1]. That package works > fine, but it conflicts with Arch's packaging guideline. [2] > >

[aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?

2017-08-06 Thread Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general
Hello Arch enthusiasts, I'd like to create a package for Pulse Connect Secure, a popular VPN software. Current PKGBUILD can be found at [1]. That package works fine, but it conflicts with Arch's packaging guideline. [2] "Packages should never be installed to /usr/local" The reason I put files