Re: Problem with luarocks unpack

[Ką Mykolas <kamicc@...>]

hmmm...

  $ mkdir tree
  $  luarocks install --tree ./tree luarocks
  $ ./tree/bin/luarocks download stacktraceplus

or

 $ ./tree/bin/luarocs --tree ./tree download stacktraceplus


(not sure if You need to put the tree parameter here explicitly)


On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:12 PM Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>   http://angg.twu.net/dednat6.html
>   http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2019.html
>   http://angg.twu.net/#eev
>
> 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
> > >
> >
>