Re: Problem with luarocks unpack

[Ką Mykolas <kamicc@...>]

Mhm.

Have You tried the following (sounds a bit more intuitive for me):

  $ luarocks download stacktraceplus
  $ luarocks unpack stacktraceplus

The biggest issue You're facing seems to be incompatibility between
Rockspec formats and Debian... not having a maintainer
who would be willing to update Luarocks package.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 5:46 PM Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> ok, so Lua is a geek language with geek batteries, right? This means
> that it should be easy to download and unpack the full source of any
> given rock, right?...
>
> I'm on Debian, and the version of the luarocks that comes with Debian
> is 2.4.2 - see:
>
>   https://packages.debian.org/sid/luarocks
>
> There are some rocks that that version can't install. Just to cite an
> obvious example, I tried to ask the luarocks from Debian to install
> the most recent version of luarocks - some package managers are able
> to do this - by doing:
>
>   luarocks --local install luarocks
>
> and I got these error messages:
>
>   Installing https://luarocks.org/luarocks-3.2.1-1.src.rock
>   Error: Rockspec format 3.0 is not supported, please upgrade LuaRocks.
>
> So I tried to install a recent version of luarocks from the git repo.
> Here's what I did:
>
>
>   sudo apt-get remove luarocks
>
>   # Clean all the stuff from previous uses of luarocks
>   rm -Rfv ~/.cache/luarocks/
>   rm -Rfv ~/.luarocks/
>
>   cd      ~/usrc/
>   git clone https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks
>   cd      ~/usrc/luarocks/
>
>   # Choose a version
>   git branch --list -a
>   git checkout 3.2.1
>   git reset
>
>   ./configure
>   make
>   sudo make install
>
>   which luarocks
>   luarocks --version
>
>   rm -Rv /tmp/rock/
>   mkdir  /tmp/rock/
>   cd     /tmp/rock/
>   luarocks unpack stacktraceplus
>   # Output:
>   # "Error: Failed copying unpacked rockspec into unpacked source directory."
>
>
> I got the same error on several rocks. What I am doing wrong?
> "luarocks unpack" is not well documented, so I am mostly guessing that
> it is the right thing for downloading rock sources...
>
>   Thanks in advance,
>     Eduardo Ochs
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