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JamieKitson

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Registered: 2010-10-18

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Pacman not building package

Hi,

a package I use recently got updated with a patch due to a bug. The PKGBUILD file reflects this change. However when I install the package using pacman it is not being built, and so the bug remains. I can see that it's not being built because the install is very quick, and I have manually patched and built the source to confirm this and that the patch does fix the bug. Do I have to do something special to get pacman to actually build the package?

Thanks, Jamie

WorMzy

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Re: Pacman not building package

However when I install the package using pacman it is not being built

Pacman doesn't build anything ever, it installs pre-built packages.

Can you post the output of

pacman -Q flickcurl

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karol

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Re: Pacman not building package

The package has just been updated, maybe you're installing it from a mirror that hasn't synced yet.

JamieKitson

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From: UK

Registered: 2010-10-18

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Re: Pacman not building package

Thanks both. I think it was even more basic than the mirror not having synced, I hadn't synced(!)

Incidentally if pacman never builds anything, what's the build section for?

prepare() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
  patch -p1 <$srcdir/a5cc2a5d2fc7074f50fbaa772232b6e0fea7ce89.patch
}

build() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
  sed -i 's|#include <curl/types.h>||' src/flickcurl_internal.h
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make
}

package() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
}

circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

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Re: Pacman not building package

makepkg does the building, pacman does the installing.

EscapedNull

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Re: Pacman not building package

The package has just been updated, maybe you're installing it from a mirror that hasn't synced yet.

This is probably it.

makepkg does the building, pacman does the installing.

I saw that coming as soon as I read the thread title. At least I wasn't the only one splitting hairs over it. ;-)

@JamieKitson
If you want to test the theory, you can try syncing with the ABS (or downloading the PKGBUILD), and running makepkg yourself after verifying the PKGBUILD includes the patch in question.

runical

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Registered: 2012-03-03

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Re: Pacman not building package

@JamieKitson
If you want to test the theory, you can try syncing with the ABS (or downloading the PKGBUILD), and running makepkg yourself after verifying the PKGBUILD includes the patch in question.

The ABS usually takes a day to sync, so using the ABS tool may not be the best way to go about this if the pkgbuild has just been uploaded.

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Re: Pacman not building package

The ABS usually takes a day to sync, so using the ABS tool may not be the best way to go about this if the pkgbuild has just been uploaded.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/asp-git/

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