FS#44957 - optdepends do not care for versions
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Pacman
Opened by Dominik Fischer (XZS) - Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 20:55 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 02 March 2016, 04:09 GMT
Opened by Dominik Fischer (XZS) - Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 20:55 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 02 March 2016, 04:09 GMT
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Details
Optional dependencies, specified through the optdepends
array in a PKGBUILD, can contain version restrictions like
any dependency. Pacman ignores these completely, only caring
for whether a package is installed or not, regardless of its
version.
The attached PKGBUILD creates two packages, named "dependency" and "dependent". The latter optionally depends on dependency>2, which is not available as both have version 1-1. Installing both, pacman notes: (1/2) installing dependancy [########################################################################################] 100% (2/2) installing dependent [########################################################################################] 100% Optional dependencies for dependent dependency>=2: for testing [installed] which is wrong as dependency is not installed in a version greater or equal 2. Querying the package database also erroneously reports this. $ pacman -Qi dependent [...] Optional Deps : dependency>=2: for testing [installed] [...] Lastly, the warning when when removing dependency also reports so. $ pacman -R dependent checking dependencies... :: dependent optionally requires dependency>=2: for testing pacman -Rs dependent also does not suggest to remove dependancy. The behavior on removal may be intentional, but the former two should clearly not denote that the dependency is [installed] as the required version is not provided. |
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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 02 March 2016, 04:09 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: git commit 3da06c35
Wednesday, 02 March 2016, 04:09 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: git commit 3da06c35
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) -
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 06:48 GMT
- Field changed: Percent Complete (0% → 100%)
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