[arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency

[Xavier]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> Dan McGee wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> One of us is confused....
>
> here is what I did
>
> abs
>
> rsync -var /var/abs/extra ~/
>
> makeworld --clean --log --noconfirm --syncdeps --rmdeps
> /home/packages/testing .
>
> the error I originally posted came from the log file
>
> Can you point out where I changed the build file/process? or attempted to
> enable the info files?
>
>

You are obviously confused.

Recently the developers stopped to strip info pages from packages , so
the packages are progressively being rebuilt to support info pages as
they are upgraded.
So the packages having info pages can be in two different states :
1) the PKGBUILD / scriptlets were updated to support info files :
these packages will build fine with the docs option in makepkg.conf
2) the PKGBUILD / scriptlets were not yet updated : these packages
will build fine with !docs

Since you are using docs, you will have problems with 2). A possible
workaround is to add rm -f usr/info usr/share/info in tidy_install
function of makepkg.
If you were using !docs, you would have problems with 1). A possible
workaround is to add info to DOC_DIRS in makepkg :
DOC_DIRS=(usr/{,share/}{info,doc,gtk-doc} opt/*/{info,doc,gtk-doc})

The next pacman/makepkg 3.3 release will contain these two fixes.