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JonnyRobbie

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Registered: 2015-04-28

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Proper handling versioned `provides` field

I wanted to switch from repo cairo package to aur's cairo-git packages. But when installing I had an error:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing cairo breaks dependency 'cairo>=1.14.0' required by gimp-git

At first glance I thought that maybe cairo-git forgot to put provides field in the PKGBUILD, but looking at it, it is there correctly. So the second idea I had is that the issue is gimp-git's rescriction on pkgver. But at this point, I don't know how to fix that.

Which PKGBUILD would you amend and how?

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Proper handling versioned `provides` field

cairo-git needs

provides=('cairo=1.17.2')

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