Hello, I checked, it works.
So I can only imagine the situation that the upstream build system may require unzip and the package maintainer rejects tweaking of th makefile or whatever there is. sincerly Stefan -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 22:12:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [aur-general] makepkg and unzip From: Xavier To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > some Java programs follow the windows install method "put everything > into a directory", and the "Everything" is shipped via zipfile. So > sometimes it is easier to unzip (or unbsdtar) the whole bunch to > $startdir/pkg/somewhere rather than to $startdir/src/somewhere. > > example (not yet in AUR) > Ok, thanks to you and Luká Jirkovský for providing real examples :) In any cases, it's a good idea to check if it works with bsdtar because this is installed on any arch system, unlike unzip.
