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[securitybreach]

I just found this yaourt switch while reading the man page:

-G, --getpkgbuild <package>
           Get PKGBUILD for ABS or AUR.

╔═ comhack@Cerberus 09:14 AM
╚═══ ~-> yaourt -G iron-bin
==> Download iron-bin sources
x LICENSE
x iron.png
x iron.sh
x PKGBUILD
x iron-bin.install
x iron.desktop

╔═ comhack@Cerberus 09:15 AM
╚═══ ~-> ls iron-bin/
iron-bin.install  iron.desktop iron.png  iron.sh  LICENSE  PKGBUILD

I cannot believe that I have been manually downloading the files via https://aur.archlinux.org/ to edit PKGBUILDS and such.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

See! Ya' learn something new every day.

[securitybreach]

See! Ya' learn something new every day.

[abarbarian]

CODE

$ yaourt -G wmcore
==> Download wmcore sources
x PKGBUILD

Neat trick but why have you got more stuff when you use it ??

[securitybreach]

CODE

$ yaourt -G wmcore
==> Download wmcore sources
x PKGBUILD

Neat trick but why have you got more stuff when you use it ??

Some packages require more packages than others. You think that is something, see what the catalyst driver provides:

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╔═ comhack@Cerberus 11:46 AM
╚═══ ~-> yaourt -G catalyst-total
==> Download catalyst-total sources
x PKGBUILD
x lib32-catalyst.sh
x catalyst.sh
x amdcccle.desktop
x atieventsd.sh
x hook-fglrx
x catalyst_build_module
x ati_make.sh
x makefile_compat.patch
x 3.2.8.patch
x catalyst-total.install

[abarbarian]

Thanks   I really must try and wait a bit before I ask dumb questions. I found out the answer a few minutes after posting.  

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[bloodaxe@longship ~]$ yaourt -G wmcpu
==> Download wmcpu sources
x makefile.patch
x PKGBUILD
[bloodaxe@longship ~]$ w.g.e.t http://www.dockapps.org/download.php/id/673/wmcpu-1.4.tar.gz
--2012-03-03 17:41:38--  http://www.dockapps.org/download.php/id/673/wmcpu-1.4.tar.gz
Resolving www.dockapps.org... 82.98.86.163
Connecting to www.dockapps.org|82.98.86.163|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `wmcpu-1.4.tar.gz'

    [  <=>                                  ] 35,802       127K/s   in 0.3s    

2012-03-03 17:41:39 (127 KB/s) - `wmcpu-1.4.tar.gz' saved [35802]

[bloodaxe@longship ~]$ cd wmcpu/
[bloodaxe@longship wmcpu]$ md5sum wmcpu-1.4.tar.gz
4c789ee361f0447c70ba28efda1699fa  wmcpu-1.4.tar.gz
[bloodaxe@longship wmcpu]$ makepkg
==> Making package: wmcpu 1.4-1 (Sat Mar  3 17:46:02 GMT 2012)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Found wmcpu-1.4.tar.gz
  -> Found makefile.patch
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    wmcpu-1.4.tar.gz ... Passed
    makefile.patch ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
/home/bloodaxe/wmcpu/PKGBUILD: line 18: cd: /home/bloodaxe/wmcpu/src/wmcpu-1.4:No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Is my abort caused by me not being in root.?? I did not want to try befote asking as I do not want to bork me new install just yet  

Looks like I got me answer

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# makepkg
==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause permanent,
catastrophic damage to your system. If you wish to run as root, please
use the --asroot option.

naughty naughty barbarian  

Hmm the source address is a dead link.

However I have another idea.  

Edited by abarbarian, 03 March 2012 - 06:24 PM.

[securitybreach]

You have to extract the archive as you cannot run makepkg against am archive,  only on an PKGBUILD.

[securitybreach]

Also,  that file wouldn't work as you cannot run makepkg against the source file, only against a PKGBUILD which fetches the source.

[abarbarian]

Thanks for taking the time again. I did some of the unpacking with spaceFM as it is so easy so the steps did not show in the code I posted. I have followed your guide with and without the cli a few times now and think I have gained an understanding of what is going on.

Pretty sure the source link is the cause of the abort as the site it leads to says

The domain dockapps.org may be for sale by its owner!

So nothing can be downloaded which is a shame but at least I got to try the md5sum hack and that part of the excercise worked ok