Can an "or" type of conditional be used for depends() in PKGBUILD?

Question

I maintain a few AUR packages and one of them has a dependancy on kernel headers. linux-headers is now a dependancy for this. No problem. Yet I personally use linux-ck quite a bit. It would be nice to define a condition where the depends requirement would be that at least one of the packages in a string would have to be met?
In my example: depends() would be defined as: linux-headers OR linux-ck-headers
Is this possible and simple?
Last edited by wdirksen (2013-07-09 16:33:07)

Answer 1

ANOKNUSA wrote:
falconindy wrote:
lolilolicon wrote:
The problem is solved for you by
provides=("linux-ck-headers=${pkgver}" "linux-headers=${pkgver}")
in the linux-ck-headers PKGBUILD
So you can just put linux-headers to depends=().
I think provides=() is intended to just solve this sort of situation.
Except that this is entirely wrong. linux-ck-headers cannot possibly provide linux-headers.
I always assumed what lollicon said:
➜ ~/ pacman -Si linux-ck-headers
Provides : linux-ck-headers=3.9.9 linux-headers=3.9.9 <----
The PKGBUILD might require graysky's [repo-ck] to be enabled in /etc/pacman.conf though.
For my educational benefit then, is it so that? . . .
I could setup depends without arguments, "depends()" in this case, because regardless of the type of ArchLinux based kernel, if it is packaged as stated above, the proper header package would natively be "pre-provided"?
I'm gonna uninstall some header packages and give this a go. This is fun.
Last edited by wdirksen (2013-07-11 09:19:16)