[SOLVED] srcpac not pulling source

falconindy · 2009-10-25 06:30:48

Rather than do it the easy way and just disable the screensaver, I've found a patch for gnome-screensaver-2.28. It fills in the unfinished "poke" function that media players (VLC in particular) use to inhibit activation of the screensaver when watching a movie. I found srcpac, and I know that 'srcpac -Sw gnome-screensaver' should be downloading source code, but the resultant package is, well... already a compiled package! What did I miss?

Also happy to get bopped on the nose if I'm going about this all wrong. I was only able to find Debian/Ubuntu based source code for gnome-screensaver elsewhere on the webz.

Last edited by falconindy (2009-10-25 15:06:22)

.:B:. · 2009-10-25 10:54:40

Can you paste the output you get on screen from when you call srcpac till when it 'delivers' the finished package? I had some strange stuff going on with srcpac recently, too.

falconindy · 2009-10-25 14:34:14

Certainly.

 [haruko@quake ~]$ ! srcpac -Swv gnome-screensaver
Root      : /
Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf
DB Path   : /var/lib/pacman/
Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/  
Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Log File  : /var/log/pacman.log
Targets   : gnome-screensaver  
resolving dependencies...

Targets (1): gnome-screensaver-2.28.0-1  

Total Download Size:    4.35 MB
Total Installed Size:   7.56 MB

Proceed with download? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 gnome-screensaver-2...     4.4M 1535.8K/s 00:00:03 [#########################################] 100%
checking package integrity...

This drops a gnome-screensaver-2.28.0-1.x86_64.pkg.tar.gz in my pacman cache. I also have a gnome-screensaver/ under /var/abs/extra, but it essentially only contains the PKGBUILD and .install file. The timestamps make me think this wasn't put here by srcpac.

Last edited by falconindy (2009-10-25 14:41:26)

Allan · 2009-10-25 14:40:31

I think you need to read "man srcpac". That just downloads the binary package from the repos. You can use the "-b" flag to build packages in combination with "-o" to make adjustments.

What you are probably looking for is this wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

falconindy · 2009-10-25 14:51:05

Hrmm, the Pacman rosetta should probably be updated then. Serves me right for following it blindly. Well, according to the man page for srcpac, using the -Sb flags should get and build gnome-screensaver from source.

srcpac -Sb gnome-screensaver

Source Targets: gnome-screensaver

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] 
makepkg: invalid option -- 'b'

makepkg (pacman) 3.3.2

Usage: /usr/bin/makepkg [options]

Options:
  -A, --ignorearch Ignore incomplete arch field in PKGBUILD
  -c, --clean      Clean up work files after build
  -C, --cleancache Clean up source files from the cache
  --config <config> Use an alternate config file (instead of '/etc/makepkg.conf')
  -d, --nodeps     Skip all dependency checks
  -e, --noextract  Do not extract source files (use existing src/ dir)
  -f, --force      Overwrite existing package
  -g, --geninteg   Generate integrity checks for source files
      --skipinteg  Do not fail when integrity checks are missing
  -h, --help       This help
  -i, --install    Install package after successful build
  -L, --log        Log package build process
  -m, --nocolor    Disable colorized output messages
  -o, --nobuild    Download and extract files only
  -p <buildscript> Use an alternate build script (instead of 'PKGBUILD')
  -r, --rmdeps     Remove installed dependencies after a successful build
  -R, --repackage  Repackage contents of the package without rebuilding
  -s, --syncdeps   Install missing dependencies with pacman
      --allsource  Generate a source-only tarball including downloaded sources
      --asroot     Allow makepkg to run as root user
      --holdver    Prevent automatic version bumping for development PKGBUILDs
      --source     Generate a source-only tarball without downloaded sources

These options can be passed to pacman:

      --noconfirm      Do not ask for confirmation when resolving dependencies
      --noprogressbar  Do not show a progress bar when downloading files

If -p is not specified, makepkg will look for 'PKGBUILD'

Error: Failed to build "gnome-screensaver"

Further, it says it will run makepkg from /var/srcpac/<repo>/<package>. But like I said in my last post, there's nothing source-ish located there.

edit: And now I understand ABS. Note to self: read the PKGBUILD.

Last edited by falconindy (2009-10-25 15:01:21)

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#1 2009-10-25 06:30:48

[SOLVED] srcpac not pulling source

#2 2009-10-25 10:54:40

Re: [SOLVED] srcpac not pulling source

#3 2009-10-25 14:34:14

Re: [SOLVED] srcpac not pulling source

#4 2009-10-25 14:40:31

Re: [SOLVED] srcpac not pulling source

#5 2009-10-25 14:51:05

Re: [SOLVED] srcpac not pulling source

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