Download/update tarball to current directory

[orschiro]

Hi there,

I am wondering whether the following use case is covered by pacaur.

I keep my AUR builds in separate folders within ~/ABS.

I would like to change into a directory ~/ABS/foo and simply update the existing PKGBUILD and other relevant files as found in the tarball.

I guess, pacaur -d is what I am looking for but so far I could not find an option in pacaur specifying a temporary build directory.

Any advice?

Thanks ahead!

[rmarquis]

I'm not sure what you mean by "temporary build directory". Do you actually want to change the build directory location completely (builddir)?

[orschiro]

"Temporary" might be the wrong word.

I don't want to change the build directory location completely because I want to keep the different AUR builds in the separate directories within ~/ABS instead of having all in one builddir.

Example:

ABS tree -L 1
.
├── dhcp
├── freshplayerplugin-git
├── lwks
├── powersaving
└── ttf-ms-win8

5 directories, 0 files

[rmarquis]

The packages are already built in subdirectories (/tmp/pacaurtmp-USER/package). Simply changing builddir to "~/ABS" might achieve what you are looking for. You might want to disable the clean option too.

[rmarquis]

You might also want to have a look at the discussion in #81. It might be relevant here.

[orschiro]

@Spyhawk

Thanks for your suggestion! I didn't have the time yet to test them but as far as I can tell, this is what I was looking for.

You can close this issue. Should there be still any question left, then I will report back.

Again, thanks for your help!