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JonnyRobbie

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Registered: 2015-04-28

Posts: 172

Resolving makedepends with yaourt

I'm doing yaourt -Syua --devel, and gimp-git package has gnome-python>=2.16.2 as a makedepend http://pastebin.com/8bYaaUUQ, which is not currently on my system (probably removed as part of orphan cleaning). But instead of resolving that dependency, it fails with an error

==> Missing dependencies:
   -> gnome-python>=2.16.2
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

But if I try to sync gimp manually with yaourt -Sy gimp-git, it tries to resolve dependencies correctly as expected http://pastebin.com/2ciyLnL7. I'm not sure if it's by design and I'm missing something, but how do I do a full system upgrade, aur devel included with automatic dependency resolving? Thanks

I should note that the same thing happens with pcsx2-git and its makedepend png++, so is isn't likely to be an PKGBUILD issue (maybe).

Spyhawk

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Registered: 2006-07-07

Posts: 485

Re: Resolving makedepends with yaourt

Seems to be a yaourt bug.

JonnyRobbie

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Registered: 2015-04-28

Posts: 172

Re: Resolving makedepends with yaourt

Thanks for the info. I hope it will get fixed soon.

olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: Resolving makedepends with yaourt

It's not clear for me what the --devel option do in yaourt. According to the man page it only upgrade devel packages? Such upgrade is unsupported in Arch. I strongly suggest you to upgrade all your system with pacman -Syu. Use yaourt only to manage the AUR.