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davideb01

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Registered: 2014-03-13

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makepkg -i causes duplicate target error on split packages

I thought about filing this as a bug but I figured I'd ask here first since I'm new at this.

I'm using makepkg in a script to automatically build and install a custom kernel split package. The PKGBUILD builds the most current tag from a git repository and updates the pkgver. The problem is that this causes the makepkg function update_pkgver() to re source the PKGBUILD file. Normally wouldn't be a problem, except that the additional packages are added using the BASH += operator:

pkgname+=("${pkgbase}-headers" "${pkgbase}-docs" "${pkgbase}-gummiboot")

So instead of three additions there are now six. pkgname is eventually passed to pacman and the duplicates cause 'duplicate target' errors.

Yes, since I know what the problem is, I fixed it on my machine. I added 'unset pkgname' right before the source call in update_pkgver(). But it seems hackish. It took me a while to find out what was wrong. I thought for sure that someone else has had this problem. Surely I can't be the only one unless I'm going about the package build the wrong way.

The full command btw is:

 makepkg -s -i -c -f --needed --noconfirm 

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progandy

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Re: makepkg -i causes duplicate target error on split packages

Can you show use the PKGBUILD? I guess you do something a bit wrong.

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Allan

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Re: makepkg -i causes duplicate target error on split packages

Why do you += the pkgname array?

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