[aur-general] How to handle interchangeable dependencies?

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:48:53 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:32:48 +1000
> > Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:46:48 +1000
> >>> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote:
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>>> I disagree. This same thing happens to me with my package
> >>>>> "brasero-lite". It is brasero but without the gnome
> >>>>> dependencies, and has the provides=('brasero'), but when I try
> >>>>> and install a package that has brasero as a dependencie, such
> >>>>> as sound-juicer, pacman attempts to install brasero, not
> >>>>> realising that i allready have brasero-lite. This isn't a sound
> >>>>> juicer fault, it is a fault in pacman. 
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>> That is a different problem....  
> >>>>
> >>>> The brasero-lite PKGBUILD should have provides=("brasero=2.26.0")
> >>>> in it.  Sound-juicer requires "brasero>=2.26.0" so just providing
> >>>> brasero is not enough.
> >>>>
> >>>> Allan
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> I believe this doesn't work either and the problems are at least
> >>> related.
> >>> Concrete example:
> >>> lash-git: provides=('lash=0.6.0')
> >>> calf-git: depends=('fluidsynth' 'libglade' 'lash>=0.6.0')
> >>>
> >>> namcap calf-git-20090406-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
> >>> calf-git   E: Dependency detected and not included (lash-git) from
> >>> files ['usr/bin/calfjackhost']
> >>> calf-git   W: Dependency included and not needed (lash)
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> As I said, we have two completely different problems here.  Yours
> >> is a limitation of namcap and it would be good to file a feature
> >> request to get it fixed. 
> >>
> >> The other "problem" is a PKGBUILD with incomplete provides
> >> encountering a versioned dependency.  Completely different.
> >>
> >> Allan
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Allan, I still don't know how I can solve the above mentioned
> > problem. As you see I versioned the provides and required the
> > version in this case and it doesn't help.
> >
> > As I see it I have the same problem here as Laurie Clark-Michalek.
> > I believe if this was in AUR and I tried to download calf-git
> > through yaourt it would try to install lash despite lash-git being
> > installed already.
> >   
> 
> It should not.  If it does, then it is a bug in yaourt.  If you have 
> lash-git installed, then build calf-git manually using and installed
> it with "pacman -U <pkg>", there should be no complaints from pacman.
> 
> Allan
> 

==> calf-git dependencies:
 - fluidsynth (already installed)
 - libglade (already installed)
 - lash (building from AUR)

So this is a bug in yaourt, the second today it seems.
Guess I start hunting for the yaourt and namcap bugtrackers..

Thanks for your help with that Allan and Daenyth.