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jayanath

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Registered: 2008-08-16

Posts: 30

Building a package and install using pacman

Hello,
I was trying to install telepathy-glib 0.7.18 by building the package. The arch repositories have the older version of the same but I need this version in order to work with Empathy(http://live.gnome.org/Empathy).

The steps I followed:
1- Copy /var/abs/community/lib/telepathy-glib/ to ~/abs
2- Update the version of the PKGBUILD to 0.7.18
3- makepkg -s [resulted the pkg, src folders and telepathy-glib-0.7.18.tar.gz file]
4- sudo pacman -U telepathy-glib-0.7.18.tar.gz

The result:

[amare@breeze telepathy-glib]$ sudo pacman -U telepathy-glib-0.7.18.tar.gz 
loading package data...
error: missing package metadata in telepathy-glib-0.7.18.tar.gz
error: 'telepathy-glib-0.7.18.tar.gz': invalid or corrupted package

This is the first time that I'm trying to build my own package. Am I missing any step?
Thanks in advance for any help:)

The PKGBUILD file:

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.13 2008/06/27 10:39:06 bjorn Exp $
# Maintainer: Bjorn Lindeijer <bjorn lindeijer nl>
pkgname=telepathy-glib
pkgver=[b]0.7.18[/b]
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="GLib bindings for the Telepathy D-Bus protocol"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org"
groups=('telepathy')
license=('LGPL')
options=('!libtool')
depends=('dbus-glib')
makedepends=('libxslt')
source=(http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-glib/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=()

build() {
    cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make || return 1
    make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}

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Cheers,
Jayanath

"There is LIFE beyond the 8x8 cubicle"

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Building a package and install using pacman

You're trying to install the source tar.gz, you gotta pacman -U *.pkg.tar.gz.

jayanath

Member

Registered: 2008-08-16

Posts: 30

Re: Building a package and install using pacman

lucke,
Thanks for your quick reply. I didn't realize that I was trying to install the src pkg.:D Another lesson learnt.

Thanks again.

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Cheers,
Jayanath

"There is LIFE beyond the 8x8 cubicle"