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Tasklist

FS#13028 - Add a pacman binary option to makepkg.

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Xyne (Xyne) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 02:40 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 14 December 2009, 05:57 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category makepkg
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version 3.4.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Sometimes makepkg needs to call pacman to install makedepends or for something else. It would be nice if there were an option to select the pacman wrapper of your choice.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 14 December 2009, 05:57 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  git commit 66c6d288
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 03:26 GMT
Please give more details for the reason for this request. What exactly would that achieve?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 05:25 GMT
Taking a wild guess, I expect he wants to use powerpill in place of pacman when installing things. Seems reasonable to some extent
Comment by Xyne (Xyne) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 13:53 GMT
Yep.

Sometimes I need to pull in a lot of deps and makedeps when building pkgs. I then get the choice to either wait out pacman and allow makedepends to be handled automatically or I can use powerpill and then deal with the makedepends manually.

Neither are show-stoppers, but they are annoyances. Would it really be a problem to add a pacman binary option to makepkg.conf?
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 14:20 GMT
This can always be worked around, with no need to even modify makepkg.
Just put a pacman symlink to the wrapper of your choice first in the path (eg /usr/local/bin).
I have nothing against this feature request, I am just not convinced it is easier to have an option that to simply use a symlink.
Comment by Xyne (Xyne) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 15:07 GMT
Add and removing a symlink when I want to would work, but it's ugly and affects the whole system.

Thanks for the suggestion all the same. My original "issue" was really just a "hey, this shouldn't be too difficult to do and it would improve makepkg imo". It's not that big of a deal.

Feel free to delete this request.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 31 January 2009, 09:43 GMT
  • Field changed: Severity (Low → Very Low)
This is very low priority for me but if a patch is supplied, I will consider it for inclusion.

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