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FS#1724 - Pacman is unable to create dir specified in the build()

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Warren Brian Noronha (wnorrix) - Wednesday, 03 November 2004, 03:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When the package is built it does not make the /usr/doc dir or /usr/share/doc

Reproducable Bug:
PKGBUILD:
# Maintainer: Warren Brian Noronha <warren@gnu.org.in>

pkgname=libalgorithm-diff-ruby
pkgver=0.4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="This implementation is basically a Ruby conversion of the Perl Algorithm::Diff."
url="http://www.rubynet.org/mirrors/diff"
license="GNU/GPL"
depends=(ruby)
makedepends=(ruby)
mirror="http://www.rubynet.org/mirrors/diff"
source=($mirror/diff-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('3e832de40dc1866dddc64978fe67e4c8')

build() {
instdir=$startdir/pkg/usr
mkdir -p $instdir/doc/
mkdir -p $instdir/share/doc/$pkgname
}
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Thursday, 04 November 2004, 00:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 03 November 2004, 21:51 GMT
Actually, this is an Arch-ism, to coin the term. :)

makepkg removes /usr/doc, /usr/share/doc, /usr/info, and /usr/share/info after a package is built. We only package manpages -- other documentation is left as web-accessible material.

Some people like this, some hate it.

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