Arch Linux User Repository

Would love to take ownership of this package so that I can make sure that it is kept updated and working. /Author

Could you add --with-udev to avoid setuid binaries? That's how the upstream PKGBUILD does - https://github.com/haikarainen/light/blob/master/archlinux/PKGBUILD

Is the maintainer AWOL? The 'light-git' package does not build, but 'light' does.

I attempted @shanewstone 's patch in yay with --editmenu and found it unsuccessful. However, using an alternate AUR manager was successful - just in case anyone else was running into that too.

Thanks @shanewstone, it worked for me as well!

In the build section, running ./configure without --prefix=/usr leads to the files being placed in /usr/local/ instead of /usr/. Here is a partial diff showing what worked for me:

 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Program to easily change brightness on backlight-controllers.'
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="https://github.com/haikarainen/light"
 license=('GPL3')
-makedepends=('git' 'help2man')
+makedepends=('git')
 conflicts=('light')
 provides=('light')
 source=('git+https://github.com/haikarainen/light.git')
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pkgver() {
 build(){
   cd "$srcdir/light"
   ./autogen.sh
-  ./configure
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr
   make
 }

Upgrade (1.0.r7.g5b302a0-1 -> 1.1.2.r22.g5d5e3c3-1) fails with errors:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) light-git: /usr/local/share/man exists in filesystem (owned by filesystem) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I am upgrading with yay.

Hi,

help2man can be removed from makedepends, see: https://github.com/haikarainen/light/pull/41

With the current PKGBUILD make install command, the files are installed to /usr/local, you should add PREFIX=/usr:

make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX=/usr install

Hi,

The build fails with message: (make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.)

Current source from git requires autogen.sh and configure scripts to run before being able to "make".

Great little tool.