[solved]makepkg -e ignoring the -e?

Question

Trying to build a package that includes curl/types.h which has been removed from the curl package, but every time I comment out the include and run makepkg -e it re-extracts from the source file and overwrites my changes anyway. I thought the entire point of the -e option was to use the existing src/ directory as-is? That's what it says it does with makepkg --help:
$ makepkg --help
makepkg (pacman) 4.0.3
Usage: /usr/bin/makepkg [options]
Options:
  -A, --ignorearch Ignore incomplete arch field in PKGBUILD
  -c, --clean      Clean up work files after build
  -d, --nodeps     Skip all dependency checks
  -e, --noextract  Do not extract source files (use existing src/ dir)
  -f, --force      Overwrite existing package
  -g, --geninteg   Generate integrity checks for source files
  -h, --help       Show this help message and exit
  -i, --install    Install package after successful build
  -L, --log        Log package build process
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Last edited by biltong (2012-10-20 15:49:20)

Answer 1

That is not a vcs build.  There is an svn version of littleblackbox available, but this is for one of the versioned releases.
That PKGBUILD really does need some TLC though.  It should not try to re-extract the source tarball in the build function, this is what is causing your problems.
Here's a modified version that solves that issue:
pkgname=littleblackbox
pkgver=0.1.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="security/penetration testing tool, search in a collection of thousands of private SSL keys extracted from various embedded devices"
arch=(any)
url="http://code.google.com/p/littleblackbox/wiki/FAQ"
license=('MIT')
depends=('openssl' 'libpcap' 'sqlite3')
source=('https://littleblackbox.googlecode.com/files/littleblackbox-0.1.3.tar.gz')
md5sums=('7ddc140beda3f98c34db644b01fc4d84')
build() {
cd $pkgname-$pkgver
rm -f bin/$pkgname 2>/dev/null
cd src
make distclean
./configure
make
package() {
cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver
install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/bin $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname \
$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname
install -m755 bin/$pkgname ${pkgdir}/usr/bin
install -m644 bin/lbb.db $pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname
ln -s /usr/share/$pkgname/lbb.db $pkgdir/usr/bin/lbb.db
install -m644 docs/LICENSE $pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname
install -m644 docs/{FAQ,README,submission.txt} $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname
msg "done"
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Last edited by Trilby (2012-10-20 11:46:31)