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lovebug356

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Registered: 2009-08-05

Posts: 6

[solved] Creating a devel version from an installed upstream package

Hello,

I want to create a devel version from an upstream package (gstreamer). After reading the wiki page of devel
versions I created this PKGBUILD.

_realname=gstreamer0.10
pkgname=${_realname}-git
pkgver=20090819
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="GStreamer Multimedia Framework"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=('LGPL')
url="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/"
depends=('libxml2>=2.7.3' 'glib2>=2.20.1')
conflicts=('${_realname}')
makedepends=('git' 'cvs' 'intltool' 'pkgconfig' 'gtk-doc')
provides=('${_realname}')
options=('!libtool')
source=()
md5sums=()

_gitroot=git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer
_gitname=master

build() {
    cd ${srcdir}
    if [ -d gstreamer ] ; then
      cd gstreamer && git pull --rebase || return 1
    else
      git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer || return 1
      cd gstreamer
    fi
    sh autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var || return 1
    make || return 1
    make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1
}

The package builds fine, but I'm not able to install the package:

$ sudo pacman -U gstreamer0.10-git-20090819-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [####################################################################################################################################################################################] 100%
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files)
gstreamer0.10-git: /usr/bin/gst-feedback-0.10 exists in filesystem
...
gstreamer0.10-git: /usr/share/man/man1/gst-xmllaunch-0.10.1.gz exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

So, the package is not installed because there are some files from gstreamer0.10 replaced in this package. But I'm declaring 'provides' and 'conflics' in the PKGBUILD like the wiki suggests.

What is going wrong here?

Last edited by lovebug356 (2009-08-20 14:28:19)

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: [solved] Creating a devel version from an installed upstream package

Put this in PKGBUILD:

conflicts=('gstreamer0.10')

OR

put these --> " " instead of these --> ' ' around ${_realname} in conflicts array.

Wherever you have a $_realname or a variable like that, always type --> " "

Last edited by flamelab (2009-08-20 10:56:28)

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: [solved] Creating a devel version from an installed upstream package

Try to explicitely deinstall gstream0.10 and then use pacman -U to install your package. Or use a personal repo and pacman -Sy to install it. pacman -U does not handle package conflicts.

lovebug356

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Registered: 2009-08-05

Posts: 6

Re: [solved] Creating a devel version from an installed upstream package

Thanks, a combination of the 2 tips worked.