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solar

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Registered: 2011-03-01

Posts: 77

pacman bug or?

Heya..

I download muffin-git from aur, and then edit the recipe to contain , replaces, provides and conflicts=("${_pkgname}") which is muffin.

Even so, when doing makepkg -si, say, pacman doesn't resolve correctly, and exits with files already exists. If I remove muffin, it works obviously.

It's a bit odd, but I don't know if my system is for some reason borked in the db, or if someone can replicate (this particular package).

I cannot replicate the issue with other packages, only this one.

EDIT: and before the foaming mouth appear.. yes I am perfectly sure it is just me not understanding the resolving tree path here.. but just want someone with a helpful feedback on it. ,x

Last edited by solar (2014-01-15 05:23:15)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,701

Re: pacman bug or?

Did you read the pacman manual ?

ewaller$@$odin ~ 1007 %man pacman  | tail -30 | head -4
BUGS
       Bugs? You must be kidding, there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong,
       send us an email with as much detail as possible to pacman-dev@archlinux.org.

ewaller$@$odin ~ 1008 %

Perhaps if you were to share your PKGBUILD...

Edit: Moving to AUR issues, Discussion and PKGBUILD requests

Last edited by ewaller (2014-01-15 05:39:21)

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WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

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Re: pacman bug or?

What if you actually put conflicts=('muffin')?  Does it still do it then?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: pacman bug or?

I think he used the one from the AUR. I did get the errors too.
I'll try with 'muffin' instead of '${_pkgname}'

Edit: It worked.

Last edited by karol (2014-01-15 05:55:46)

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: pacman bug or?

Can someone provide the PKGBUILD that is "broken" so I take take a look at it.   bonus points for extracting the .PKGINFO from the built package and posting it too!

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: pacman bug or?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mu/m … t/PKGBUILD doesn't work.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: pacman bug or?

Not a pacman bug, but a bad PKGBUILD. Single quotes don't allow the variables to expand, they should be double quotes.

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-01-15 07:28:00)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: pacman bug or?

@ Scimmia, but the OP does use double quotes. Or maybe he used double quotes only for the post...

Last edited by x33a (2014-01-15 08:46:36)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: pacman bug or?

Double quotes work.

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: pacman bug or?

Indeed, there are single quotes around the variable in the package.

@solar, look up the difference between single an double quotes in bash.  Then you'll see why this was borked and why your original post caused confusion.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: pacman bug or?

"Trust no one", as the Eskimos say ;-)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: pacman bug or?

But what if I don't trust Eskimos?

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