[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add rundepends keyword to makepkg

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> When a package A requires a package B at runtime, but B is not
> needed for building A or B cannot be installed while A is being
> built, rundepends=('B') can be used to add B to A's dependencies,
> omitting the dependency check at built time.
> ---
>  scripts/makepkg.sh.in |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> index c45d7e8..c809498 100644
> --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ create_package() {
>        for it in "${groups[@]}"; do
>                echo "group = $it" >>.PKGINFO
>        done
> -       for it in "${depends[@]}"; do
> +       for it in "${depends[@]} ${rundepends[@]}"; do
>                echo "depend = $it" >>.PKGINFO
>        done
>        for it in "${optdepends[@]}"; do
> @@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ fi
>
>  unset pkgname pkgver pkgrel pkgdesc url license groups provides md5sums
>  unset replaces depends conflicts backup source install build makedepends
> -unset optdepends options noextract
> +unset optdepends options noextract rundepends
>
>  if [ ! -f "$BUILDSCRIPT" ]; then
>        error "$(gettext "%s does not exist.")" "$BUILDSCRIPT"
> --

I've been contemplating something like this for a while as well. What
do others on the list think, is this getting to be too much, or does
this make sense? I think I would be fine with it. We will need
documentation (namely PKGBUILD.5.txt) to be patched as well in the
final patch.

-Dan