[arch-general] [Solved] Re: PKGBUILD ERROR

[mudongliang]

On 09/11/2015 09:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 20:55:10 +0800, mudongliang wrote:
>> Besides, I first use pacman , but there are some softwares in aur which
>> needs yaourt. So I install and use it as the wiki tells me.
> 
> Nothing provided by AUR needs yaourt. In some exceptional cases it
> could be, that building with yaourt fails.
> 
> The classical approach is to download the snapshot from AUR, to extract
> it and to run makepkg -s.
> 
> If libraries provided by the official repositories changed and software
> provided by a package you build from AUR depends on a dedicated version
> of such an upgraded lib, then even yaourt not necessarily will inform
> you about upgraded PKGBUILDS, since especially PKGBUILD that clone from
> git seldom will be upgraded. You need to care about such changes on
> your own. However, not only packages build from AUR are tricky, always
> care about the news on the Arch homepage and read what pacman wants to
> do, when upgrading.
> 
> You should take a deeper look into the Arch Wiki. There are Arch Wikis
> in different languages.
OK, thank you! I will read it again.
	- mudongliang
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
>