[aur-general] Backslash to split lines in `depends` array

Rafael Ferreira josephgbr at archlinux.info
Sun Nov 3 07:30:36 EST 2013


Em 03/11/2013 10:29, Fabien Dubosson escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to update my AUR packages with `aura` [1] † and get the
> following error:
> 
>     aura >>= Determining dependencies...
>     aura >>= Dependency checking failed for these reasons:
>     The dependency `\` could not be found. You may need to search for a
> package to satisfy it.
> 
> This is due to the following lines in `octave-hg` [2] PKGBUILD:
> 
>     depends=('fftw>=3.2.2' 'curl' 'fltk' 'hdf5' 'glpk' 'arpack' 'gl2ps' 
> \
>       'qrupdate' 'qscintilla' 'qhull' 'graphicsmagick' 
> 'java-environment')
> 
> The problem doesn't seem to appear with `yaourt` [3] . So before 
> filling a
> bug request to `aura`, I wanted to be sure that it is allowed/common to 
> use
> `\` to split lines in the `depends` array?
> 
> If it is not the case, I will post a comment on the `octave-hg` AUR 
> page to
> ask to remove the backslash.
> 
> † Also tested with `aura-git`, the problem still exists.
> 
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aura/
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octave-hg/
> [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yaourt/
> 
> Best regards,
> Fabien


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