Le 27/07/2021 à 16:46, Archange a écrit :
Le 27/07/2021 à 16:11, Filipe Laíns via aur-general a écrit :
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 11:15 +0200, Cedric Girard via aur-general wrote:
Hi,
I would like to have a confirmation. I encountered a PKGBUILD on AUR that is not building correctly except when systemd is present when building. The maintainer considers the makedeps is implicit as systemd is dragged by base metapackage.
However devtools only ensures base-devel is present, not base, when building in a clean chroot. And I could not find a mention in the wiki of base expected to be present when writing a PKGBUILD.
Could you confirm to me what are the guidelines? Does systemd (make)dependency should be explicit or not?
Regards,
Hi Cedric,
Yes, see [1]. Packages in base can, and should, be omitted from dependencies.
This is not generally true. While base can arguably be implicitly depended on for most basic tools (e.g. standard POSIX things), library dependencies should still be listed for instance:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_package_guidelines#Package_dependencie...
And we are subject to remove some packages, see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64028, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64029, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64030, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64047.
Also, makedepencies != dependencies, so:
Similarly, the base-devel group is assumed to be installed when building packages, see [2]. Its members should be omitted from makedepends and checkdepends.
yes, but once again base is not in building chroots, thus anything from base and not in base-devel required for building must be listed in makedepends, in this case systemd. I still have yet to find again where we discussed base in chroots/systemd in base-devel, but this is the current states of things so as long as it stays this way, systemd should be listed in makedepends if required.
Not the one I had in mind, but I was pointed at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66762 So a solution would indeed be to add base to base-devel and be done with it (w.r.t. the specific question of whether systemd should be a makedep). Bruno/Archange