[arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> stefan-husmann at t-online.de wrote:
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>>
>>> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:23:28 +0100
>>> Subject: [arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency
>>> From: Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com>
>>> To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> When compiling packages using makeworld or my custom script I am
>>> getting a number of failures like this:
>>>
>>> /usr/info/dir exists in both 'glib' and 'gtk'
>>>
>>> What causes this?
>>>
>>> Is there a way to fix this without forcing this packages?
>>>
>>> or better still is there a fix?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> no package should provide that file. As a workaround ,simply remove it
>> in the PKGBUILD. Proper info file handling is demonstrated in the file
>> proto-info.install uder /usr/share/pacman.
>>
>> Also, info files should be installed under /usr/share/info, not
>> /usr/info.
>> Regards Stefan
>>
>
> I didn't make the PKGBUILD files.
>
> I should not have to remove anything from the PKGBUILD files that are in
> extra.
> They should just build with makepkg.
>
> Are you saying the arch developers don't know what they are doing?

But you did build them differently. Arch developers are slowly
building info docs into packages, and you attempted to enable them
without adding the required lines to delete that file.

-Dan