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FS#72839 - Support Programmable provides/conflicts arrays
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Pacman
Opened by Mazhar Hussain (mazharhussain) - Thursday, 25 November 2021, 12:38 GMT
Last edited by morganamilo (morganamilo) - Thursday, 25 November 2021, 15:34 GMT
Opened by Mazhar Hussain (mazharhussain) - Thursday, 25 November 2021, 12:38 GMT
Last edited by morganamilo (morganamilo) - Thursday, 25 November 2021, 15:34 GMT
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Software like gtksourceview have Arch packages named gtksourceview5 but when creating VCS PKGBUILD for such a package from their gitlab repo, we do not know if gtksourceview we get is going to be version 5.2.x, 5.3.x, 6.x.x or something else. We need a way to determine the version of the source we get and then add it to `provides` array. So that other packages can depend on correct version of this package. Solution: Provide support for functions like provides() and conflicts() that run **after** downloading sources and either modify the actual provides/conflicts arrays or the print out a space separated list of provided/conflicting features/software. My Specific Use-case: I want to create an AUR package named gtksourceview-git which provides the latest gtksourceview (currently v5.3.0) i.e. `provides=(gtksourceview5=5.3.0)` because the latest version of gnome-text-editor-git needs gtksourceview5>=5.3.0. But I also want it to update its provides array to `provides=(gtksourceview5=5.4.0)` when version info gets updated in master branch of gtksourceview without me having to manually edit its PKGBUILD (because its a VCS PKGBUILD which should always provide up-to-date information & software). A PKGBUILD for gtksourceview-git is attached to this task. |
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Closed by morganamilo (morganamilo)
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 15:34 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 15:34 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
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