Re: Problem with luarocks unpack

[Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@...>]

Hi Ką,

You mean this?

  rm -Rv /tmp/rock/
  mkdir  /tmp/rock/
  cd     /tmp/rock/
  luarocks --verbose download stacktraceplus
  luarocks --verbose unpack   stacktraceplus

Same error, but the --verbose may help...

About updating the Debian package to 3.x:
  https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues/1033

Cheers =(,
  Eduardo Ochs
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 13:02, Ką Mykolas <kamicc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >     http://angg.twu.net/dednat6.html
> >     http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2019.html
> >     http://angg.twu.net/#eev
> >
>