[SOLVED] Made a pymtp packagebuild, made a mistake?

violagirl23 · 2008-06-02 03:04:10

I made my first package build to submit to the AUR. The install script is in the directory made by the tarball, so I figured just a cd $startdir would suffice, but I must be missing something, because makepkg spits out

python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

so I must not be cd'ing to the right directory.
Here is my package build:

# Contributer: Megan M<violagirl23@gmail.com>

pkgname=pymtp
pkgver=0.0.4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="LibMTP bindings in Python"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://nick125.com/projects/pymtp/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('libmtp>=0.2.6' 'python>=2.5')
source=(http://downloads.nick125.com/projects/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('5eff39cbcc2e073228df04fe1ab1fce8')
build()
{
    cd $startdir/
    python setup.py build
    python setup.py install --root=$startdir/pkg/
}

So what is the small mistake I made, and how can I fix it?

Last edited by violagirl23 (2008-07-17 23:27:37)

Allan · 2008-06-02 03:22:05

The tarballs are extracted in the "${startdir}/src/" or equivalently "${srcdir}" directory. You probably want to "cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" or whatever directory is made when extracting the source file.

violagirl23 · 2008-06-02 03:55:52

All right, I changed that and all seemed to be well. Other than that, does there seem to be any problems with it? It is a fairly simple little package, and it does not look like I missed anything else.

Allan · 2008-06-02 03:58:19

Apart from that, it looks really good. Go ahead and upload it.

violagirl23 · 2008-06-02 05:44:59

Ah, one more thing, at the developer's request I created a .install file to echo a message once you install it and uploaded it with the .install file included, but when I install it, the message doesn't seem to be showing to the screen. How would I do that? (I just made it by copying the format on another .install file I saw).
Here is the file:
pymtp.install:

## arg 1:  the new package version
post_install() {
    echo -n "To install documentation for PyMTP, install epydoc and issue the following command to have the documentation installed in <output directory>: epydoc -o <output directory> pymtp.py"
}

Allan · 2008-06-02 05:51:55

You have to add an "install=ptmtp.install" line to the PKGBUILD. I would split that echo statement over a couple of lines as well.

violagirl23 · 2008-06-02 06:28:22

Okay, I have done this and it works. One last thing. Is there any easy way to print the same message for both post_install() and post_upgrade()? I merely copied the message and put it in twice but suspect there is a more efficient way.

Stefan Husmann · 2008-06-02 07:34:33

You can just call post_install in post_upgrade.

violagirl23 · 2008-06-04 22:15:45

Thanks, I did that. Is it normal to not submit a package but not see an update? I submitted the edited version and it said it was submitted successfully but the package page still seems to be using the one from two days ago. Do I have the change pkgrel to 2 to make it work? It just seemed unnecessary to me, as the build is exactly the same as before.

Allan · 2008-06-04 22:31:20

I'm guessing you figured this out given it has been resubmitted?

violagirl23 · 2008-06-04 22:36:09

I guess it just took a while to show is all, yes. After about half an hour it had updated it.
Marking as SOLVED!

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[SOLVED] Made a pymtp packagebuild, made a mistake?

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