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Arch Linux AUR PKGBUILD generate new checksums
Published: 29-12-2014 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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The AUR is a nice feature from Arch Linux, it allows anyone to create and upload
a simple package build script, PKGBUILD, for a piece of software which is not in
the repositories. Sometimes however, the PKGBUILD is outdated. You then need to
manually fix it, by changing the download link or version. With a new version
you get new checksums, and the makepkg command has a neat feature which
generates the checksums for you.
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After you have updated your PKGBUILD you can get new checksums with the
following command:
makepkg -g -f -p PKGBUILD
Where PKGBUILD is the actual PKGBUILD file with incorrect md5sums.
Output, for newrelic-php5 in this example:
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Found newrelic-php5-4.17.0.79-linux.tar.gz
-> Found newrelic-daemon.service
-> Found .install
==> Generating checksums for source files...
md5sums=('c1c01fe1deed8e73508588a30e01046c'
'4fc78347663adcb32ed28eddb546619c'
'd3f7bb7fc0d84dff40d294384a32ddd3')
Update the PKGBUILD file with the new checksums and you are ready to try a new
build.