Issues building packages without default config (in /etc)

[SpidFightFR]

Hey everyone, i need help with xbps-src.

I try to make a template for fastfetch (for my personal usage).

This package doesn't come with a default configuration file. But you can generate one using a command (like sddm): fastfetch --gen-config {/output/file/name.conf}.

This leads me to an error at the end of compilation:

=> fastfetch-2.0.5_1: running pre-pkg hook: 99-pkglint ...
=> ERROR: fastfetch-2.0.5_1: '/etc/fastfetch/config.conf' configuration file not in PKGDESTDIR!
=> ERROR: fastfetch-2.0.5_1: cannot continue with installation!

I tried:

• to compile it by default (well it's a normal first try)
• to create a conf file using another linux, to copy it into srcpkgs/fastfetch/files/config.conf and use vconf in pre_check() (feels like a dirty workaround but why not)

Anyways, i'm running out of ideas... any help is welcome !
If you need anything, please ask.

[classabbyamp]

conf_files is only for marking a file that exists in a package as specially mutable, i. e., if it is modified by the user after installation, it isn't removed/overwritten and instead a .new file is generated with the new content. You don't put something in conf_files if it doesn't exist in the package, as xbps can't/won't track it in the first place and thus will never overwrite it.

[SpidFightFR]

Why does this error show up, even when the template doesn't mention any config file ? I'm quite confused... what am i missing?

[Duncaen]

There has to be, it uses the $conf_files which comes from the template:

void-packages/common/hooks/pre-pkg/99-pkglint.sh

Lines 73 to 78 in 7d94645

	for f in $(expand_destdir "${conf_files}"); do
	if [ ! -f "${PKGDESTDIR}/${f}" ]; then
	msg_red "${pkgver}: '$f' configuration file not in PKGDESTDIR!\n"
	error=1
	fi
	done

[SpidFightFR]

There has to be, it uses the $conf_files which comes from the template:

void-packages/common/hooks/pre-pkg/99-pkglint.sh

Lines 73 to 78 in 7d94645

	for f in $(expand_destdir "${conf_files}"); do
	if [ ! -f "${PKGDESTDIR}/${f}" ]; then
	msg_red "${pkgver}: '$f' configuration file not in PKGDESTDIR!\n"
	error=1
	fi
	done

Welp... i must be stupid.
I just re-written the template from scratch, to be sure to miss nothing, and it worked.
Perhaps i forgot something before.

My apologies for the disturbance. 😓
Thank you to the both of you for your help tho ❤️