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WayfarerCodes

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Registered: 2025-05-30

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[Fixed] PKGBUILD error, attempts to put a file in the wrong directory

I'm trying to package software that I've been working on (hosted here), but I'm new to making my own PKGBUILDs and have run into an error I can't figure out how to solve. This is the output of makepkg -si in the same directory as the PKGBUILD:

==> Making package: storyfork 0.1.0-1 (Fri 30 May 2025 04:04:58 PM EDT)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Found v0.1.0.zip
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
v0.1.0.zip ... Skipped
==> Extracting sources...
-> Extracting v0.1.0.zip with bsdtar
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/username/tempfolder/pkg/storyfork/usr/bin/storyfork': No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
Aborting...

And this is the PKGBUILD so far:

pkgname="storyfork"
pkgver="0.1.0"
pkgrel="1"
pkgdesc="A tool for reading CYOA stories written in text files"
arch=("any")
url="https://codeberg.org/wayfarer/StoryFork"
license=("GPL-3.0-only")
groups=("wayfarer")
depends=("python-pyqt6" "python3")
makedepends=("xdg-utils")
source=("$url/archive/v$pkgver.zip")
sha512sums=("SKIP")

package() {
	cp -T "${srcdir}/storyfork/src/storyfork.py" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/storyfork"
	chmod +x "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/storyfork"
	xdg-mime install "${srcdir}/storyfork/build/mime-type.xml"
	cp "${srcdir}/storyfork/build/StoryFork.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/StoryFork.desktop"
	cp "${srcdir}/storyfork/icons/storyfork-logo.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/storyfork.png"
}

Last edited by WayfarerCodes (2025-05-30 22:01:43)

WorMzy

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Re: [Fixed] PKGBUILD error, attempts to put a file in the wrong directory

$pkgdir/ is empty at the start of the package() function, i.e. it doesn't contain a usr/bin directory. You can create it, copy the storyfork.py file there, and set the permissions in one command using 'install'. e.g.

install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/storyfork/src/storyfork.py" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/storyfork"

Last edited by WorMzy (2025-05-30 20:37:32)

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WayfarerCodes

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Re: [Fixed] PKGBUILD error, attempts to put a file in the wrong directory

That worked. Thanks for the help.