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barefly

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Registered: 2014-08-16

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[SOLVED] Issue with installing from pacaur, makepkg invalid option

I was in the middle of updating my i3-gaps when makepkg suddenly threw up the following error before failing to build the package.

makepkg: invalid option '--pkg'

From the looks of it, the --pkg option was removed from makepkg as of 5.0.1. So if this is the case, how should I be going about updating this package in pacaur?

Last edited by barefly (2016-06-14 17:08:00)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue with installing from pacaur, makepkg invalid option

- update pacaur
- use pacaur-git instead and update regularly
- manually update your packages until pacaur gets fixed (if not fixed already)

barefly

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Registered: 2014-08-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue with installing from pacaur, makepkg invalid option

- update pacaur
- use pacaur-git instead and update regularly
- manually update your packages until pacaur gets fixed (if not fixed already)

Thanks for the quick response. I don't know how I didn't click to update pacaur.

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue with installing from pacaur, makepkg invalid option

Moving to AUR Issues.

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Spyhawk

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue with installing from pacaur, makepkg invalid option

Note: Don't use pacaur-git unless you really need an upcoming change. Latest changes in pacaur-git are much less tested, and that is why there is a stable release.

This means you'd look at the commit log, and see whatever new fix or new feature, and acknowledge that "yes, I need that to fix the current issue I'm facing". Alternatively, if you feel as a guinea pig and are able to write proper bug report, just go ahead.