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FS#28197 - If SRCPKGDEST does not exist, error message is missleading.

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Gary van der Merwe (garyvdm) - Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 12:41 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 19:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category makepkg
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.0.1
Due in Version 4.0.2
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I had set SRCPKGDEST in my /etc/makepkg.conf, but the SRCPKGDEST directory did not exist. I got an error which was very misleading. It would be great if makepkg could check if it can write to the SRCPKGDEST, like it does for PKGDEST, and print an informant error msg.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set SRCPKGDEST in /etc/makepkg.conf to path that does not exist.
2. Run makepkg --source

Actual result:

==> Making package: python-dbus-git 20120131-1 (Tue Jan 31 13:53:04 SAST 2012)
==> Retrieving Sources...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Creating source package...
-> Adding PKGBUILD...
-> Compressing source package...
bsdtar: Failed to clean up compressor
==> ERROR: Failed to create source package file.


Expected result: Maybe something like:

==> ERROR: You do not have write permission to store packages in /home/garyvdm/arch/srcpackage.
Aborting...


This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 19:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Commit 47313acee48029b
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 13:18 GMT
Patch
   0001-makepkg-Fix-non-writable... (1 KiB)

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