[pacman-dev] makepkg -b is wrong

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Thu May 1 09:03:29 EDT 2008


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Xavier wrote:
>  > Diogo Dutra wrote:
>  >
>  >> Hi guys, I have found a bug in makepkg, the makepkg -b dont install
>  >> builded packages as depencies, it install as explicited packages and
>  >> it is not good, I make a patch that revolve this problem.
>  >>
>  >> Im sorry for any mistakes of mine.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>  > This doesn't look bad but I am never very confident with makepkg :)
>  >
>  This patch looks good.
>
>  <snip>
>  +    echo "$(gettext "      --asdeps        Install package as
>  dependencies")"
>  <snip>
>
>  The description of the --asdeps option should be "Install package as a
>  dependency"

Haven't even looked at the patch yet, but should we really even be
keeping this -b option around in makepkg? It seems like something
another script (such as makeworld) should do. This isn't emerge here.

-Dan




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