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#1 2009-03-16 23:51:36
- genisis300
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symnlinks from a PKGBUILD [not-solved]
Hi All,
is it possible to install a symlink from a PKGBUILD,
i tried running ln -s foobar /foo/bar
and i get a permission denied
thanks for your help
Matthew
okay i though i had fixed it but now i get a symlink destination of /home/matthew/Projects/foo instead of /usr/bin/foo
Last edited by genisis300 (2009-03-17 00:16:53)
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#2 2009-03-17 03:59:55
- Snowman
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Re: symnlinks from a PKGBUILD [not-solved]
ln -s /usr/bin/foo $pkgdir/link_path/link_name
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#3 2009-03-17 11:06:55
- syntaxerrormmm
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Re: symnlinks from a PKGBUILD [not-solved]
Well, creating the pkg.tar.gz after creating the symlink should be a problem, since the symlink will be broken after installation (IIRC).
I would advice to symlinking in the .install script (which could intervene on the live filesystem after the installation of the package).
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#4 2009-03-17 11:12:47
- tomk
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Re: symnlinks from a PKGBUILD [not-solved]
No, we use the entry given by Snowman in quite a few Arch packages. It works as expected.
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#6 2009-03-17 20:07:45
- genisis300
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Re: symnlinks from a PKGBUILD [not-solved]
thanks all, thats cleared that up for me 
Regards
Matthew
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