[arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency

[Baho Utot]

Xavier wrote:
> 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.
>   
Oh Ok,

The tools are in a broken state until pacman 3.3

Thanks for clearing that up.