NEEDED? makepkg.conf.pacnew and/or yaourt-git: WARNING: Unable to copy

Question

Hi....
ISSUE:  when I try to install CERTAIN things via yaourt on my up to date system.
At the end of the yaourt process I will sometimes get  the:
==> WARNING: Unable to copy WHATEVER PACKAGE to /tmp/ directory
I'm pretty sure I deleted  makepkg.conf.pacnew.
I am certain to have gone through the big 3.2 pacman upgrade a while back.
I assumed the pacnew was a pacsave ...I guess.... can't assume of course.
The only post I could find was this one...
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53040
As I very likely threw out the    makepkg.conf.pacnew
and missed the merge thing.... could someone post it... or tell me the fix....
OTHER FIX/ISSUE I READ ABOUT:
yaourt-git needed instead of the release version ????
I'm not at all sure if I need yaourt-git and the doing of the recommended MERGE with the   makepkg.conf.pacnew and the old one.
After this gets resolved I will hopefully add t omy knowledge of AUR usage... and add the other install techniques!!  great!
thanks!!!!!!!!
Last edited by yvonney (2009-01-24 08:50:36)

Answer 1

anonymous_user wrote:Pacman is 4.1 is not released yet. The wiki is just telling you about the new feature in the next pacman.
I see, but I do not understand why I already encounter PKGBUILDs written with the aforementioned "style".
For instance, giving a look to pacman-git, I find:
source=(git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git)
sha1sums=('SKIP')
pkgver() {
cd pacman
git describe | sed 's/^v//;s/-/./g'
build() {
cd "pacman"
./autogen.sh
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--enable-doc \
--enable-git-version \
--enable-debug \
--with-scriptlet-shell=/usr/bin/bash \
--with-ldconfig=/usr/bin/ldconfig
make
make -C contrib
As I said, my makepkg cannot handle that source and there is not an official way to fix it, apparently.