[aur-general] Reffering to a Package Version in PKGBUILD

[Christian Scharkus]

Thank you ... I will fix it in the PKGBUILD :)

2008/10/31 Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com>:
> Christian Scharkus wrote:
>>
>> I've got a problem with xine-lib crying for ffmpeg>=20080715. I have
>> ffmpeg-svn installed and this fullfilled the requirement. But even if
>> I write something like presents=('ffmpeg' 'ffmpeg>=20081031') into my
>> PKGBUILD the error occure again and again. A dynamic Date as mentioned
>> in the comments of ffmpeg-svn (something like date +%Y%m%d would be
>> nice).
>>
>> Thank you
>> Raubkopierer
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> The correct field is "provides", not "presents". However, the real issue is
> in ffmpeg-svn's PKGBUILD:
>
> provides=('ffmpeg=`date +%Y%m%d`')
>
> should be:
>
> provides=("ffmpeg=`date +%Y%m%d`") [or even better: provides=("ffmpeg=$(date
> +%Y%m%d)")]
>
> because command substitution does not occur between single quotes.
>
> I left a comment on ffmpeg-svn's page regarding this.
>