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FS#29935 - Provide field ignored installing a group

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Gianpiero (4javier) - Thursday, 17 May 2012, 20:59 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.0.3
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
Installing a group, every package belongig to this one is considered explicitly installed (I think...) ignoring already installed package that provides it.

Steps to Reproduce:
install i.e. notify-osd-customizable from AUR (that provides notification-daemon)
Install gnome group: pacman -S gnome
notification-daemon get installed

If I add notification-daemon inside conflicts array of notify-osd-customizable, and refuse to replace notify-osd-customizable with notification-daemon, the whole Sync operation fails due to dependecy problem.

Same thing happens with xfce4-goodies and xfce4-notifyd.

I know this is not a completely unattended behaviour, but I think pacman should manage group installs more than just pacman -S {all_the_packages_belonging_to_that_group}

Perhaps more an enhancement than an issue, but I file it as a bug anyway. :)
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Comment by {16/7} (hexadecagram) - Friday, 18 May 2012, 00:11 GMT
Please also see the package comments I have posted here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37576
Comment by Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) - Friday, 18 May 2012, 00:27 GMT
In my opinion, Aur is unsupported and Aur maintainers should set their conflicts correctly
Comment by Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) - Friday, 18 May 2012, 00:33 GMT
example : jre7-openjdk and jre from aur both provide jre-runtime=7 and jre also conflicts with jre-runtime-7 while jre7-openjdk does not

the repos shouldn't accommodate, aur should woke within around what is already in the repos
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Friday, 18 May 2012, 01:05 GMT
Working as intended. The provider is being reinstalled from the gnome group because you didn't pass --needed with the sync transaction.

Edit: hrmm, seems I'm wrong about that... But unless there's a good reason for it, I'd say _that_ would be the change worth making.
Comment by Gianpiero (4javier) - Friday, 18 May 2012, 09:48 GMT
@Anthony
I mentioned your case inside my bugreport :)

@Daniel
Read again the report: if I add notification-daemon to conflict of my pkgbuild, gnome group install totally fails due to dependency issue. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your proposal: how I should modify my pkgbuild?

@Dave
--needed works for package already up-to-date, or for dependency already provided also?
If it was the latter, shouldn't be --needed passed to pacman into the sources, when it syncs a group?

To exclude that this is an AUR problem, you can see the same behaviour with just packages from the official repo.
pacman -S xfce4-notifyd (repo extra, it provides notification-daemon)
pacman -S gnome
notification-daemon will be installed anyway.
Comment by Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) - Friday, 18 May 2012, 13:03 GMT
right now if it is in the conflicts , you need to --ignore the other packages when installing the group
Comment by Gianpiero (4javier) - Friday, 18 May 2012, 13:28 GMT
Shouldn't be better if could pacman check if there are some packages which already provide the ones that are going to be installed, and eventually could automatically exclude it?

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