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| author | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2016-01-26 18:30:29 +1000 |
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| committer | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2016-01-26 18:34:33 +1000 |
| commit | 599520e489e59d127d2423d57d95f667849f286a (patch) | |
| tree | 89e432c73e493c38b44382a8afa38767bf9972f7 | |
| parent | 4291500c82b04bccc0509b6583d7bf266c87906a (diff) | |
PKGBUILD.5: document split package depends are not used during packaging
makepkg only considers global {make,}depends when checking require packages
are installed before building.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt index 4ff3b029..e410481b 100644 --- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt +++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt @@ -402,6 +402,11 @@ each split package's packaging function: `provides`, `conflicts`, `replaces`, `backup`, `options`, `install`, and `changelog`. +Note that makepkg does not consider split package `depends` when checking +if dependencies are installed before package building and with `--syncdeps`. +All packages required to make the package are required to be specified in +the global `depends` and `makedepends` arrays. + An optional global directive is available when building a split package: *pkgbase*:: |