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#1 2011-08-09 13:57:19

stuvjordan
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PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

Hello All:

I'm working on installing cisco-vpnclient from the AUR this morning.  When I run

makepkg -s

, makepkg attempts to install kernel26-headers-2.6.39.3-1.  This fails, with the message

error: failed retrieving file 'kernel26-headers-2.6.39.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

Based on searches of the package database, the AUR, and google, it appears that there is no mirror that contains a file called 'kernel26-headers-2.6.39.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'.  There is, of course, kernel26-lts-headers and there is also linux-headers.  I've tried installing those, and then

makepkg -s

on cisco-vpnclient again, but still get the same failure.

I've got three questions:

1) how do I fix this and get cisco-vpnclient installed?

2) why is this happening?

3) in general, when a package insists on a dependency that is not available, how can I modify the code in the PKGBUILD to skip the requirement? (or would do that be a bad idea?)

Thanks,

Stu

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#2 2011-08-09 13:58:56

karol
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

Direct link to to this package from a mirror that hosts old files: http://arm.konnichi.com/core/os/i686/ke … pkg.tar.xz

It's happening because we ship linux 3 now.

When things like this happen, go to http://arm.konnichi.com/search/ and grab the packages you need or compile them yourself using old PKGBUILDs.
If a PKGBUILD lists some package as a dependency you generally can't just omit it by removing if from the 'depends' array.

Last edited by karol (2011-08-09 14:07:40)

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#3 2011-08-09 14:12:26

wonder
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

you should change the dependency to linux-headers


Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

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#4 2011-08-09 14:14:44

karol
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

wonder wrote:

you should change the dependency to linux-headers

Actually, you're right ;P
See the comments by P67
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10537

I think you should flag it out of date.

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#5 2011-08-09 15:38:27

stuvjordan
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

thanks for the replies, wonder and karol.

So, my only remaining question regards the syntax of the changes to the PKGBUILD.  Here are the lines in the PKGBUILD file that (seem to) set dependencies:

if [ "`uname -m`" = "i686" ]; then
   depends=('kernel26>=2.4.0')
else
   depends=('kernel26>=2.4.0' 'lib32-gcc-libs')
fi

makedepends=('kernel26-headers>=2.4.0')

So my guess is that I need to replace

kernel26-headers>=2.4.0

with

linux-headers

everywhere it occurs in the PKGBUILD file?

thanks,

Stu

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#6 2011-08-09 15:41:25

karol
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

I think so.

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#7 2011-08-09 16:51:17

stuvjordan
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

quick update...

replacing 'kernel26-headers' with 'linux-headers' in the package build did not fully solve the problem.  BUT in all this, I realized that I have not "pacman -Syu"ed since the move to kernel v. 3.0 yesterday.

don't think it makes sense for me to figure out a fix for this that might only work with the outdated release.

So after I "pacman -Syu", I'll start over and eventually post what works with the v3.0 kernel.

-Stu

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#8 2011-08-10 12:23:38

stuvjordan
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

ok, so here's the deal:

Because of the name changes that went along with the upgrade to kernel v3.0 (see News: Changes to kernel package and filenames) two things had to change in the PKGBUILD.

1) first there's the dependency on the kernel.  Since the arch package containing the kernel v3 is called 'linux' instead of 'kernel26', those references had to be changed.  So the OLD version of the pkgbuild had the code:

if [ "`uname -m`" = "i686" ]; then
   depends=('kernel26>=2.4.0')
else
   depends=('kernel26>=2.4.0' 'lib32-gcc-libs')
fi

So I changed 'kernel26>=2.4.0' to 'linux>=3.0.1' in that block.

2) there's the dependency on the headers.   The PKGBUILD contains the code

makedepends=('kernel26-headers>=2.4.0')

I replaced 'kernel26-headers>=3.0.1' with 'linux-headers>=3.0'

that seems to work to get it installed.

hope it works!

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#9 2011-08-10 12:25:40

karol
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

Cool, can you post this on the AUR page: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10537 ?

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#10 2011-08-10 20:44:46

stuvjordan
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

done.

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#11 2011-08-11 05:18:52

yngwin
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

just linux-headers would do, you don't need the version there

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#12 2011-08-11 11:43:11

stuvjordan
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

in what cirumstances would you want the version in there?

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#13 2011-08-12 16:34:51

yngwin
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Re: PKGBUILD with dependency on kernel26-headers

when it actually makes a difference, but in this case there are no (and never were) versions lower than 3.0.

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