FS#11281 : makepkg --source creates bogus symlink for local source file

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FS#11281 - makepkg --source creates bogus symlink for local source file

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Friday, 22 August 2008, 09:45 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 22 August 2008, 10:48 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	General
Status	Closed
Assigned To	No-one
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version	3.2.0
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

Summary and Info:
say i have a local file in my source line in a PKGBUILD
then when i run makepkg --source this file becomes a bogus symlink in the tarball created by makepkg.

for example
PKGBUILD
==========
pkgname=mypkg
pkgver=0.1
pkgrel=1
source=(http://someurl.com somelocalfile.txt)

mypkg-0.1-1.tar.gz
==========
mypkg/PKGBUILD
mypkg/somelocalfile.txt -> somelocalfile.txt

Steps to Reproduce:
run makepkg --source as described above

here is a patch