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AndreasBWagner

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From: Boston, MA, USA

Registered: 2010-03-05

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package which depends on most recent version of dependency

So I am maintaining dmenu-hg in aur. dmenu-hg is developed pretty much concurrently with libdraw-hg.

I don't want to iterate the version requirement of libdraw-hg in the dmenu-hg PKGBUILD every time there is a new version of libdraw-hg.

Is there a way to have dmenu-hg depend on the most recent version of libdraw-hg or at least require it to be built first?

Thanks,
Andreas

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: package which depends on most recent version of dependency

You can specify in dmenu-hg's PKGBUILD the minimal version of libdraw-hg's pkgver

depends=(..."libdraw-hg>=1000"...) (for example)

so that makepkg, if it sees an older version installed (for example, 999) it will demand a newer one, so the user will update libdraw-hg

Last edited by flamelab (2010-09-13 14:02:06)