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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,655

Force redownload of source

Is there any option in a PKGBUILD to tell makepkg to always download a source file, even if it's already found in $SRCDEST?

Edit, I tried manually removing the file from $SRCDEST in the global section of the PKGBUILD and it does get redownloaded, but then gets removed again when the PKGBUILD is sourced after the sources are downloaded, so that's a no-go.

Edit2: This seems to work

# make sure CMakeLists.txt gets re-downloaded
if [[ -z $_removed ]]; then
  [[ -e "$SRCDEST/$_pkgname-CMakeLists.txt" ]] && rm "$SRCDEST/$_pkgname-CMakeLists.txt"
  _removed=1
fi

Anyone have a better solution? This is still better than what I was doing, but could be cleaner if there's another option that I'm not aware of.

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-07-05 03:23:00)

anatolik

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Registered: 2012-09-27

Posts: 458

Re: Force redownload of source

The source files suppose to be immutable unless you use some kind of VCS package.

What exactly you are trying to do, why do you need to redownload it each time?

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,655

Re: Force redownload of source

Because it is part of a VCS package, specifically ewebkit-svn. Unfortunately, the webkit svn repo is absolutely massive, approaching 3GB last time I checked and expanding all of the time. It includes all of their tests, the entire website, etc. Even worse, their repo structure horrible, requiring files from the root dir to build. I've been manually doing the checkout with --depth immediates to get the files from the root dir, then doing an update --set-depth infinity on the one dir we need. This creates a bit of a mess as far as the source array and pkgver function go, though. I'm attempting to just checkout the subdir and grab the other needed files directly from the repo.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,655

Re: Force redownload of source

Looks like the snippet posted above doesn't work out, either. The custom variable gets clear and the PKGBUILD gets re-sourced before the package function, so the file gets removed. Still looking for a good option.

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Force redownload of source

scimmia,

how about removing the svn repo from the source array and falling back to the old VCS method of downloading stuff manually in the build() section ?

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,655

Re: Force redownload of source

That's pretty much what I'm doing now, except that I'm adding it to the source array if it already exists in $SRCDIR. Since I figured out that it's only a single file I need from the root dir, I'm just looking for a cleaner way.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,655

Re: Force redownload of source

OK, the above snippet works if I export the variable. Makes sense, since it's going into fakeroot.