Thanks for the suggestions. I implemented all but the -m755 as that's the default anyway. If there are no more comments I'll upload to AUR. Justus # Maintainer: Justus Piater <Justus-dev at Piater dot name> pkgname=('syncevolution' 'syncevolution-http') pkgver=1.5.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Synchronize PIM data via various protocols" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="https://syncevolution.org/" license=('LGPL') depends=('evolution-data-server' 'neon' 'openobex' 'python2' 'libunique') makedepends=('intltool' 'boost') #changelog= source=("https://download.01.org/syncevolution/syncevolution/sources/$pkgname-$pkgver..." "$pkgname-$pkgver-casts.patch" "$pkgname-$pkgver-libical2.patch" "$pkgname-$pkgver-python2.patch") sha256sums=('39f52049006c4a703bfe4b7cea3bb3298fe61b4ba9a8dbc367492409e4091c70' 'c72fcc0f06d7958fbef98ffd379ebc95407d7bd29924e6ba63507ba7f82fcac6' 'e12fd70af74b2771c6a83a6f42cfd64a943e9e5d3db93624865b08476d4b8f2c' '3ccb195d45de1c1ad87f76dfc5927997988afa7031feb9f335fab63d6a317910') prepare() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" for patch in casts libical2 python2; do patch -p1 -i "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-$patch.patch" done } build() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -std=gnu++98" ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib/syncevolution \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --enable-bluetooth \ --enable-core \ --enable-dbus-service \ --enable-notify \ --enable-notify-compatibility \ --enable-gui \ --enable-pbap \ --enable-dav make } package_syncevolution() { cd "$pkgbase-$pkgver" make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install rm -df "$pkgdir/usr/bin/syncevo-http-server" \ "$pkgdir/usr/lib/syncevolution/test" } package_syncevolution-http() { pkgdesc="Synchronize PIM data via various protocols (HTTP server)" arch=('any') depends=('syncevolution' 'python2-dbus' 'python2-twisted' 'python2-gobject2' 'python2-pyopenssl' 'python2-service-identity') #changelog= /usr/bin/install -D "$pkgbase-$pkgver/test/syncevo-http-server.py" \ "$pkgdir/usr/bin/syncevo-http-server" }

I just uploaded my package to AUR and ran aursync -c syncevolution-http As the PKGBUILD specifies, this downloads and builds syncevolution, and creates both the syncevolution and syncevolution-http packages. It indeed makes little sense to upgrade or install syncevolution-http without syncevolution. Also, running aursync -c syncevolution syncevolution-http builds syncevolution only once, as I would expect. However, if you have been running syncevolution and later install syncevolution-http, the syncevolution build is useless. Syncevolution-http does not require syncevolution to be built (if it is already installed) - it just needs to patch and extract a Python script from the source tree. Thus, I could presumably override build() inside package_syncevolution-http() with a no-op. On the other hand, the impossibility [1] to correspondingly override makedepends suggests that this is not the recommended way to proceed. So, how should this be resolved: (a) Leave it as-is, with an installation of syncevolution-http triggering a (needless) build of syncevolution? (b) Avoid this build by overriding build() (and prepare()), but (inconsistently) not makedepends? (c) Instead of a split package, package syncevolution-http independently (which would presumably cause a joint install to download the source tarball twice)? Thanks, Justus [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#pkgbase