OR-depends (package depending on a or b)

Fractal · 2010-05-17 16:33:15

Hi, I would like to create a package depending on stepmania OR stepmania-svn.
Is it possible?

Or perhaps I can do something like that:

[…]
# Uncomment the following line if you have stepmania-svn
#_stepmania_svn=yes
depends=($(if [[ -nz $_stepmania_svn ]]; then echo stepmania-svn; else echo stepmania; fi) )
[…]

I don't know if this kind of trick is allowed in AUR.

Or I could ask the stepmania-svn maintainer to add the line

provides=('stepmania')

in the PKGBUILD, but I don't know if we can say that stepmania-svn provide stepmania.

Thank you,

Fractal

Ramses de Norre · 2010-05-17 16:48:40

I think the accepted approach for situations like this is to use the provides clause.

brisbin33 · 2010-05-17 16:49:56

The second way is the proper one in my view. I say this b/c nearly all the -svn, -git packages I've seen provide their non-svn, non-git versions. Is there a reason you don't know if we can say that stepmania-svn provides stepmania?

Fractal · 2010-05-17 17:07:58

brisbin33 wrote:

The second way is the proper one in my view. I say this b/c nearly all the -svn, -git packages I've seen provide their non-svn, non-git versions. Is there a reason you don't know if we can say that stepmania-svn provides stepmania?

The svn version is in alpha stage and for example the package stepmania-extras will probably not work with stepmania-svn.
And some people probably want to have both packages installed, but I don't know if the "provides" line would disallow that.

Thank you for your answers, I will ask the maintainer of stepmania-svn to add a "provides" line.

Another little problem I have is that I have to know whether Stepmania is installed in /opt/stepmania or /opt/stepmania-svn (or both).
Can I do something like

if pacman -Qq stepmania-svn &> /dev/null
then
   […]
else
   […]
fi

or even

if ls /opt/stepmania-svn &> /dev/null
then
   […]
else
   […]
fi

in the build function?

Fractal

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#1 2010-05-17 16:33:15

OR-depends (package depending on a or b)

#2 2010-05-17 16:48:40

Re: OR-depends (package depending on a or b)

#3 2010-05-17 16:49:56

Re: OR-depends (package depending on a or b)

#4 2010-05-17 17:07:58

Re: OR-depends (package depending on a or b)

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