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desperado

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Registered: 2018-10-12

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How to specify the installation location

How do I specify in PKGBUILD. where each file from the package should be installed? Something akin to the "%files" macro in RPM spec files. I have gone through the wiki and haven't find anything of the sort, unless I misread something.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: How to specify the installation location

It's all staged under $pkgdir

Last edited by Scimmia (2020-03-25 13:57:09)

desperado

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Re: How to specify the installation location

So if I understand correctly, does the install step (usually "make install") automatically determine the installation location for each file ("pacman -Ql <pkg-name>" to be clear) ?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: How to specify the installation location

Not automatically, check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cr … #package() for some details .

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desperado

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Registered: 2018-10-12

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Re: How to specify the installation location

Not automatically, check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cr … #package() for some details .

Pretty sure the wiki implies it is automatic. Maybe you were referring to some other context.

PKGBUILD - automatic
RPM SPEC - manual (you need to explicitly add the location of each file or rpm won't remove the files when you uninstall the package)

Scimmia

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Re: How to specify the installation location

That's not how anything works. %files isn't a macro, it's just a list of files to get included in the package. Arch just grabs everything in $pkgdir. Neither one are really specific to uninstalling a package, because the files wouldn't exist to get installed in the first place.

Last edited by Scimmia (2020-03-25 16:18:37)