[Solved] rebuild package installed by yay after changing the config

raihan · 2023-08-01 02:03:36

I have installed dwm via yay.
And when I see the dwm directory

$ ls ~/.cache/yay/dwm 
#It shows below files
$PKGBUILD  config.h  dwm-6.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst  dwm-6.4.tar.gz  dwm.desktop  dwm.install

Now I want to change the config.h file and rebuild the package.

How would I do that?

Last edited by raihan (2023-08-03 18:24:54)

Trilby · 2023-08-01 02:15:57

Two steps:

1. Build this package: `makepkg -efi`

2. Prevent yourself from much future suffering: `pacman -Rsn yay`

Seriously, get rid of yay, now.

raihan · 2023-08-01 02:49:35

`makepkg -efi` says this error

==> Making package: dwm 6.4-1 (Tue Aug  1 02:47:00 2023)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
/home/raihan/.cache/yay/dwm/PKGBUILD: line 28: cd: /home/raihan/.cache/yay/dwm/src/dwm-6.4: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
[ble: exit 4]

And what is the alternative of yay ?

Last edited by raihan (2023-08-01 02:52:03)

Trilby · 2023-08-01 02:53:42

That's in part because I don't really know what yay has done in that directory previously (and because I didn't look close enough at the `ls` output). But more importantly, it's also in part because you also don't know what yay does. Hence the advice to get rid of it. Then the actual solution would come from reading the man page for `makepkg` at least to understand the three flags I suggested using so you would see which one to remove.

The alternative to using yay is just not using yay.

How did you install yay itself?

Last edited by Trilby (2023-08-01 02:55:49)

raihan · 2023-08-01 08:32:06

Now I have removed `yay` from my machine .
Then cloned the dwm-git from aur.
Then made some change and built .
Later symlinked to /usr/bin/.
And its going.
Also read the makepkg man.

Oh thanks. I think untill there is need I am not going to use yay.

Last edited by raihan (2023-08-01 08:32:42)

Trilby · 2023-08-01 12:21:09

raihan wrote:

Later symlinked to /usr/bin/.

What?? Why? What did you symlink exactly?

raihan · 2023-08-03 18:23:39

I haven't notice ,when I was building dwm, automatically it goes to /usr/local/bin/dwm . Today I saw this .

Trilby · 2023-08-03 22:06:43

So you built it manually rather than using makepkg as advised here. That's a bad idea.

raihan · 2023-08-07 04:46:39

why building manually is bad idea?

jl2 · 2023-08-07 09:04:48

1. Installing is harder
2. Uninstalling is harder
3. Upgrading is harder
4. Building is also harder
5. managing repo dependencies is easy
6. It might be overwriten by pacman
7. You'll from forget which files are installed and also overwrite them
8. The ABS is quite neat and easy to use

How to do it via the AUR:
'git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/dwm.git
cd dwm
editor config.h
makepkg -sifc'

Last edited by jl2 (2023-08-07 09:19:28)

Trilby · 2023-08-07 12:07:33

...
9. You have to know how to properly build / install the software or else you end up with it in /usr/local requiring silly symlinks
10. You end up making silly symlinks!

raihan · 2023-08-07 20:06:10

Ok. Got it.
I was in dwm directory after cloning.
Then try to install with makepkg but somehow failed and then tried to build it manually.

Next time I'll be more carefull. And yes! garatefull to both of you.

I love this distro for its minimalism. And day by day loving the way of "do it yourself".
Though it's comparatively harder to configure the machine as base workplace ( web developer) since ubuntu was my previous distro, but now i know my machine much better and its crystal clear.

Last edited by raihan (2023-08-07 20:06:54)

WorMzy · 2023-08-07 21:50:03

Mod note: Moving to AUR issues.

Arch Linux

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[Solved] rebuild package installed by yay after changing the config

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