[arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency

[Baho Utot]

stefan-husmann at t-online.de wrote:
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>> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:39:45 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [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>
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>> Dan McGee wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>         
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> Hello,
>
> we had the ('!docs') option as default in makepkg.conf in former days,
> we have ('docs') now. /usr/share/info and /usr/info belonged to the
> directories that were usually stripped away. Now this can be a source
> for file conflicts. 
>
> Regards Stefan
>
>
>
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Ok, I see, I will just add !docs to the makepkg.conf  again as the 
system I am building this on is an older system from last year.