[arch-general] Does makepkg not honor 'provides' of other packages?

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 11.08.2009 23:02, Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 22:58 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
>   
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm trying to build "luabind" against an alternate "lua" package for
>> c++. Its name is "lua-c++" and it provides "lua". It is installed
>> correctly, yet "luabind" won't build with makepkg because of a missing
>> dependency for "lua" which should have been provided by "lua-c++". What
>> happened here?
>>
>> -- Sven-Hendrik
>>     
>
> It's probably a versioned dependency. You'll need to provide a version
> also then.
>
>
>   
That was it! Adding provides=('lua=5.1') fixed it. Thanks.