[aur-general] Should we still include VCS packages in makedepends?
Hi, As of pacman 4.2.0 there exist some variables in makepkg.conf that read: #-- The the package required by makepkg to download VCS sources # Format: 'protocol::package' VCSCLIENTS=('bzr::bzr' 'git::git' 'hg::mercurial' 'svn::subversion') It looks like pacman is able to see which package it needs to retrieve a specific VCS source. Do we still need to include those in makedepends? Regards, Marcel
On 30/12, Marcel Korpel wrote:
It looks like pacman is able to see which package it needs to retrieve a specific VCS source. Do we still need to include those in makedepends?
makepkg only uses those to see which package handles which URLs, and then checks whether they’re in the depends arrays, if they’re not it prints an error and fails. There was a task on the FS[1] about changing it to install them, but it’s a WontFix. [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43264 -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/
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