On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Alper Kanat <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey There, > > I want to package django-grappelli (version: 2.3.5) from github. I know > that usually we clone the repository and therefore have the latest commit > of the project for VCS PKGBUILD's. However in this case, I want to package > the latest stable version. So I wrote; > > > $ ll src/ > toplam 4 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 tunix users 52 Oca 20 10:59 2.3.5 -> > /home/tunix/packages/alps/django-grappelli-git/2.3.5 > drwxr-xr-x 4 tunix users 4096 Eki 11 11:07 > sehmaschine-django-grappelli-ea9441b > > So unless I do some bash magic like cd > $srcdir/sehmaschine-django-grappelli-*, I won't be able to continue to > build this package. What I wonder is if there are convenient ways to: > > - Download a tarball with a predefined name (in short: rename the output > tarball) > - Extract to predefined folder > > that we can specify in PKGBUILD? I read the man pages of PKGBUILD and > makepkg and couldn't find such an information.
you can always try to manually extract the file, combined with a proper -C and --xform parameter of tar. best regards,
