On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/06/2017 08:21 AM, Chi-Hsuan Yen via aur-general wrote: >> Hello Arch enthusiasts, >> >> I'd like to create a package for Pulse Connect Secure, a popular VPN >> software. Current PKGBUILD can be found at [1]. That package works >> fine, but it conflicts with Arch's packaging guideline. [2] >> >> "Packages should never be installed to /usr/local" >> >> The reason I put files in /usr/local is that file paths are apparently >> hard-coded. Specifically, the VPN frontend (pulseUi) loads assets from >> /usr/local/pulse/html, and then it invokes /usr/local/pulse/pulsesvc >> to actually connects to VPN. >> >> Is there a workaround for this? > > Not much you can do with software which encodes violations of packaging > guidelines in its proprietary binaries. Depending on where the > information is stored, you might be able to patch it... > > /usr/local/pulse *gags* > > If software insists on being installed to > "/completely/arbitrary/directory" then you either package it anyway or > you don't. But I suppose you could try asking them to install it in /opt > instead. > > -- > Eli Schwartz >
Aha, didn't think of patching. That simple "fix" works! Many thanks! The key is that the path before and after should have the same length. [1] Best, Yen Chi Hsuan [1] https://github.com/yan12125/aur/commit/0588f70772fae8bd84f87e56015bdc87a6729d90#diff-62ac6814f4207a45189d3491ca4e38f3R28
