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kipper

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Registered: 2003-08-03

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how to build deps from sources only from /usr/abs/local

When using makepkg, I put the PKGBUILD into a subdirectory of /usr/abs/local/foo.  cd into foo and run makepkg after I've edited the PKGBUILD to my hearts content. 
I know we can tell makepkg to build all missing deps from source, but can we specify that makepkg uses our custom PKGBUILDS in /usr/abs/local/foo-dep to build the dependencies instead of /usr/abs/foo-dep ?

Hope my question makes sense. 

kipper

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Re: how to build deps from sources only from /usr/abs/local

*bump*

hmm...Either I was unclear on my question or nobody knows.
Here's an example.  I want to compile transcode from src.  One of the deps is avifile on which I want to disable the QT aspect, hence modify that PKGBUILD.  When I run makepkg on the transcode PKGBUILD, with the option to build all deps from src, do I leave my modified PKGBUILD for avifile  under /usr/abs/extra/multimedia/avifile or /usr/abs/local/avifile ?   :?:

Dusty

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Re: how to build deps from sources only from /usr/abs/local

The question makes sense, I don't know.

I would suspect you would have to put it under /usr/abs/extra/multimedia/avifile. I'm only guessing, but I think dependencies are probably resolved according to their initial group.

Try experimenting.

Dusty

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Xentac

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Re: how to build deps from sources only from /usr/abs/local

If you read the makepkg code (it's really simple stuff), you'd find that it uses the find command to find where the package is.  If you remove the standard package in /var/abs/extra/multimedia/avifile, the only one it will find is the one in /var/abs/local/avifile.  If you leave it in there's a chance that it will find the other one first.

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kipper

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Registered: 2003-08-03

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Re: how to build deps from sources only from /usr/abs/local

Thanks for the replies.  They confirmed what I thought about just deleting the original.