[SOLVED] remove untracked files

supulton · 2010-04-11 06:51:26

I made a PKGBUILD which installs fine. However, the package in question creates some extra files in /usr/share/*package*, which are not tracked by pacman. Is it possible to automatically remove these files should I ever uninstall the package?

Last edited by supulton (2010-04-11 08:53:12)

tomk · 2010-04-11 08:25:44

Your app should not create any files under /usr/share when it's running. /usr/share is for read-only static data - only pacman should add or remove files there during package management operations.

supulton · 2010-04-11 08:33:47

Where should I put it then? The package in question, by the way, is the game Crawl (stone soup). The only non-static files it creates are saves, which can be moved easily, but where is a common location for such things?

Here's the PKGBUILD by the way:

pkgname=stone-soup-tile
pkgver=0.6.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Community maintained variant of Linley's Dungeon Crawl (tile + ascii)"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'ppc')
url="http://crawl.develz.org/"
depends=('lua' 'libpng' 'libx11' 'ncurses' 'sdl_image')
makedepends=('gcc' 'bison' 'flex')
conflicts=('crawl')
license=('custom')
install=stone-soup.install
source=("http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/crawl-ref/stone_soup-$pkgver-nodeps.tar.bz2" 'stone-soup.desktop')
md5sums=('866e315470a592572e7ce8a7214c7615'
         '6c5606ff26b7a8824d6de6c9b253bcdd')

build() {
    cd $srcdir/stone_soup-$pkgver/source
    sed -i 's|bin_prefix    := bin|bin_prefix    := usr/bin|' makefile || return 1
    sed -i 's/INSTALL_UGRP := games:games/INSTALL_UGRP := root:games/' makefile || return 1

    # stone-soup ascii
    sed -i 's/GAME = crawl/GAME = stone-soup/' makefile || return 1
    make DESTDIR=$pkgdir \
        SAVEDIR="/usr/share/stone-soup/save" \
        DATADIR="/usr/share/stone-soup/data" \
        USE_UNICODE=y \
        install || return 1
        
    make clean || return 1
    
    # stone-soup tiles
    sed -i 's/GAME = stone-soup/GAME = stone-soup-tile/' makefile || return 1
    make DESTDIR=$pkgdir \
        SAVEDIR="/usr/share/stone-soup/save" \
        DATADIR="/usr/share/stone-soup/data" \
        TILES=y \
        install || return 1
    
    install -D -m644 $srcdir/stone-soup.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/stone-soup.desktop" || return 1
    install -D -m644 ../licence.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/stone-soup/license.txt" || return 1
}

And thanks for the help.

tomk · 2010-04-11 08:40:25

I think there are some semi-standards for gaming stuff - but it's not an area I know about. Have a look at some other game PKGBUILDs, see what you can find. You could also have a look at the Arch Gaming repo - details in the wiki.

Allan · 2010-04-11 08:43:40

/var/games/$pkgname would seem to be the right place.

supulton · 2010-04-11 08:52:16

tomk wrote:

I think there are some semi-standards for gaming stuff - but it's not an area I know about. Have a look at some other game PKGBUILDs, see what you can find. You could also have a look at the Arch Gaming repo - details in the wiki.

I didn't know about that repo--seems really convenient.

Allan wrote:

/var/games/$pkgname would seem to be the right place.

I saw a few PKGBUILDs using this directory as well. It does look comfy there, and not mucking with any system files. Thanks for the tip.

I'll mark this as SOLVED since I don't mind files in /var/games not being tracked by pacman.

Gen2ly · 2010-04-12 03:11:21

Yeah some games are designed to only save files in the current directory. I've seen it before where some had to specify in the install file that the writing to directory needed ownership changed to be able to save game saves. Probably not recommended but really no alternative neither.

ngoonee · 2010-04-12 05:55:14

Can't the game just save its saved files to somewhere in the home folder and be done with it?

Allan · 2010-04-12 05:56:45

In many cases, upstream gives you no choice but to save these things outside your home directory. e.g. Some games like system-wide highscore files.

supulton · 2010-04-12 07:11:18

Gen2ly wrote:

Yeah some games are designed to only save files in the current directory. I've seen it before where some had to specify in the install file that the writing to directory needed ownership changed to be able to save game saves. Probably not recommended but really no alternative neither.

I thought this was what the 'games' group was for, though it doesn't see to be very common in arch.

Arch Linux

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[SOLVED] remove untracked files

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