[pacman-dev] Dependency Problem with bzr and makepkg

[Allan McRae]

On 27/03/16 22:24, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> On 03/27/16 at 02:00pm, Tim wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 27.03.2016 13:27, Bruno Pagani wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 27 mars 2016 13:25:16 GMT+02:00, Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>> On 03/27/16 at 12:40pm, Tim wrote:
>>>>> What is the minimal required set of preintalled packages  to build
>>>> own
>>>>> packages, is base-devel not enough? Or is it possible to add bzr as a
>>>>> dependency to pacman (or move it from extra to base-devel)?
>>>> What do you man by "minimal required set of preinstalled packages to
>>>> build own packages"?  The set of packages required to build something
>>>> depends entirely on the package you are trying to build.
>>> I think the question is, excepted base-devel, which packages are
>>> assumed to be installed on any system in order to build any
>>> package, outside of the makedependz of that package. So, like
>>> base-devel packages are not in makedepends, are there any other
>>> package that is in the same case?
>>
>> yes, thats what I meant.
> 
> The exclusion of base-devel from makedepends is an Arch policy and has
> nothing to do with pacman or makepkg.
> 
>>> I believe not, since this is the purpose of base-devel. So, the
>>> issue here is rather the one you’ve pointed out: bzr.sh should not
>>> be sourced before bzr is installed.
>>>
>>> Bruno
>>
>> The complete build log is available here:
>> https://ci.virtapi.org/job/Arch_Package_libunity/4/console
>> jenkins clones the AUR repo, then starts makechrootpkg. The host system
>> is complaining about the missing bzr package before makedepends is being
>> handled. The build works after installing bzr on the host:
>> https://ci.virtapi.org/job/Arch_Package_libunity/6/console
> 
> As you can see, makechrootpkg calls makepkg first with --verifysource.
> makepkg's man page clearly states that dependencies are ignored with
> --verifysource unless --syncdeps is also used.
> 

Correct - this is a bug in Arch Linux's devtool package and the
makechrootpkg script.  Running "makepkg -s" will work fine.

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