yaourt to build specific git hash of -git package

fommil · 2016-07-25 19:15:51

I'd really love to try out the emacs RC1 but the emacs-git package from yaourt wants to build the HEAD. I'd like to tell it to build the hash (or tag) corresponding to the RC1. Obviously I could just ./configure ; make manually, but not having to do that anymore is one of the reasons why I moved to ArchLinux from Debian in the first place.

While I'm at it... is there a way to store yaourt git repositories in a persistent location? /tmp is nuked all the time (and eats precious RAM!)

Alad · 2016-07-25 19:18:33

emacs-git package from yaourt

There's your problem; there's no such thing as a "package from yaourt". If you'd read the wiki, you'd know how to modify the PKGBUILD yourself.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD

jasonwryan · 2016-07-25 19:20:05

Moving to AUR Issues...

fommil · 2016-07-25 19:33:56

well, yes, yaourt is just a front end for AUR, of course. But to be clearer, I mean if there is a way to do this without a manual edit of the pkgfile... like a command line override or a preference for this package. It seems to reset itself on every sync.

fommil · 2016-07-25 19:42:03

it's also not entirely clear where to specify the git commit. It is possible to modify the pkgver=25.1.50.r126330 line but that's not referencing a git commit hash, or a tag such as https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/t … s-25.1-rc1

WorMzy · 2016-07-25 19:50:00

I doubt there's a flag for yaourt, but the correct way to do this is described in the PKGBUILD man page.

fommil · 2016-07-25 20:29:13

WorMzy wrote:

I doubt there's a flag for yaourt, but the correct way to do this is described in the PKGBUILD man page.

Thanks! It was indeed in the man page, but not the wiki. But it doesn't work. I changed this line

source=("$pkgname::git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git")

to

source=("$pkgname::git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git#emacs-25.1-rc1")

and I got

ERROR: Unrecognised reference: emacs-25.1-rc1

but I can confirm that this tag does exist.

WorMzy · 2016-07-25 20:47:00

You forgot an important part after the hash.

source=("$pkgname::git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git#tag=emacs-25.1-rc1")

fommil · 2016-07-25 21:05:19

WorMzy wrote:

You forgot an important part after the hash.
source=("$pkgname::git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git#tag=emacs-25.1-rc1")

ERROR: pkgver is not allowed to contain colons, hyphens or whitespace.

ARGH!

mis · 2016-07-26 08:43:18

You could comment/remove the pkgver() function and set pkgver to pkgver=25.1.rc1

.. or modify the pkgver() function so that it generates a valid string.

fommil · 2016-07-29 22:21:52

huzzah!

editing these lines

source=("$pkgname::git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git#tag=emacs-25.1-rc1")

pkgver() {
  echo "25.1.rc1"
}

(which will bring up a second PKGBUILD editing session in `yaourt -S emacs-git`) seems to have done the trick, thank you!

WorMzy · 2016-07-29 22:55:51

Please remember to mark your thread as solved by editing the first post and amending the title with "[solved]".

fommil · 2016-07-31 12:12:26

Turns out it's much easier than this:

yaourt -S emacs-pretest

you might need to add Nic's gpg key with

gpg --recv-keys 233587A47C207910 28D3BED851FDF3AB57FEF93C233587A47C207910
gpg --edit-key 233587A47C207910
gpg --edit-key 28D3BED851FDF3AB57FEF93C233587A47C207910

and setting trust to ultimate.

Last edited by fommil (2016-07-31 21:14:48)

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#1 2016-07-25 19:15:51

yaourt to build specific git hash of -git package

#2 2016-07-25 19:18:33

Re: yaourt to build specific git hash of -git package

#3 2016-07-25 19:20:05

Re: yaourt to build specific git hash of -git package

#4 2016-07-25 19:33:56

Re: yaourt to build specific git hash of -git package

#5 2016-07-25 19:42:03

Re: yaourt to build specific git hash of -git package

#6 2016-07-25 19:50:00

Re: yaourt to build specific git hash of -git package

#7 2016-07-25 20:29:13

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#8 2016-07-25 20:47:00

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#10 2016-07-26 08:43:18

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