Package Details: update-alternatives-git r0.g0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/update-alternatives-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: update-alternatives-git
Description: A simple update-alternatives replacement written in Rust
Upstream URL: https://github.com/fthomys/update-alternatives
Keywords: symlinks update-alternatives
Licenses: BSD
Conflicts: update-alternatives
Provides: update-alternatives, update-alternatives-git
Submitter: fthomys
Maintainer: fthomys
Last Packager: fthomys
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.33
First Submitted: 2025-10-15 15:55 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-10-17 12:43 (UTC)

Latest Comments

GaryScottMartin commented on 2025-11-04 23:34 (UTC)

This fails to install because ${srcdir}/update-alternatives/data does not exist, so the .desktop file cannot be found. Output of makepkg -si:

$ makepkg -si
==> Making package: update-alternatives-git r54.g10fd49b-1 (Tue Nov  4 15:29:26 2025)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Updating update-alternatives git repo...
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    update-alternatives ... Skipped
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of update-alternatives git repo...
Switched to a new branch 'makepkg'
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
warning: no edition set: defaulting to the 2015 edition while the latest is 2024
    Finished `release` profile [optimized] target(s) in 0.06s
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
install: cannot stat 'data/update-alternatives.desktop': No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...