Aura cannot build dropbox AUR package

[apirogov]

When I do it manually via makepkg, it works fine. With aura -A dropbox I get:

...
==> Beginne prepare()...
[dropbox]                         Generating desktop file... no
dropbox.desktop already exists. Use -f as the first argument to overwrite it.
==> FEHLER: Ein Fehler geschah in prepare().
    Breche ab...
aura :: Package failed to build, citing:

  makepkg failed.

aura :: Action cancelled.

[fosskers]

Interesting, this seems to occur during the second build attempt. I will investigate more.

[chris-a-mw]

Not sure if it helps but I had to add a '-f' to the PKGBUILD prepare step when installing from Arch AUR:
prepare() { gendesk -f --pkgname="$pkgname" --pkgdesc="$pkgdesc" --categories=Network PKGBUILD }

After running with that flag once, I was able to remove the flag and run additional upgrade installs without the '-f' flag.

[fosskers]

Perhaps then this is something we could suggest to the upstream packager.

[apirogov]

But what is the difference between how aura builds vs. running makepkg manually? I would expect that aura should be able to build whatever I can build with makepkg without any additional "patches".

[fosskers]

Exactly, there shouldn't be a difference. Aura is just invoking makepkg as-is. The issue is that when the build directory is not "clean", some configure settings seem to be conflicting.