[Solved] pacman kdebase-workspace dependencies not satisfyable

Question

KDE arbitarly defines several filesystems as "slow" and hardcodes this decision in kio/kio/kfileitem.cpp. I decided to turn it off and always  return false (=fast file system). After checking out the PKGBUILD via ABS,  I have made a patch and changed the PKGBUILD accordingly.
Patching and compiling went fine, install went fine as well. I then thought I should change the name to something non-default to differentiate the package from the official one. So I've added the "provides=('kdelibs')" and "conflicts=('kdelibs')" lines, built the package and tried to install it.
Pacman errors out with
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kdebase-workspace: requires kdelibs>=4.11.17
Here is the modified PKGBUILD
# $Id: PKGBUILD 233243 2015-03-10 07:39:35Z fyan $
# Maintainer: Felix Yan <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Andrea Scarpino <[email protected]
# Contributor: Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]>
pkgname=kdelibs-no-fs-check
pkgver=4.14.6
_kdeappver=14.12.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="KDE Core Libraries"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url='https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs'
license=('GPL' 'LGPL' 'FDL')
depends=('attica-qt4' 'libxss' 'krb5' 'qca' 'libdbusmenu-qt' 'polkit-qt4'
'shared-mime-info' 'enchant' 'giflib' 'jasper' 'openexr' 'strigi'
'docbook-xsl' 'upower' 'udisks2' 'libxcursor' 'phonon-qt4'
'media-player-info' 'libxtst' 'libutempter' 'qtwebkit' 'icu')
makedepends=('cmake' 'automoc4' 'avahi' 'libgl' 'hspell' 'mesa' 'grantlee-qt4')
install=${pkgname}.install
provides=('kdelibs')
conflicts=('kdelibs')
source=("http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/${_kdeappver}/src/kdelibs-${pkgver}.tar.xz"
'kde-applications-menu.patch' 'archlinux-menu.patch' 'qt4.patch' 'disable-slow-fs-check.patch')
sha1sums=('4411de9589204ed3b741ec68eeb3c37c7a0abca5'
'86ee8c8660f19de8141ac99cd6943964d97a1ed7'
'63a850ab4196b9d06934f2b4a13acd9f7739bc67'
'ed1f57ee661e5c7440efcaba7e51d2554709701c'
'ff173f198b13325c8a00b3ab728af0248a2b86fa')
prepare() {
mkdir build
cd kdelibs-${pkgver}
# avoid file conflict with gnome-menus
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}"/kde-applications-menu.patch
# add Archlinux menu entry
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}"/archlinux-menu.patch
# qmake refers to Qt5
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}"/qt4.patch
# disable slow fs check
patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}"/disable-slow-fs-check.patch
build() {
cd build
cmake ../kdelibs-${pkgver} \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON \
-DKDE_DISTRIBUTION_TEXT='Arch Linux' \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/etc \
-DHTML_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/share/doc/kde/html \
-DLOCALE_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/share/locale/kde4 \
-DKDE_DEFAULT_HOME='.kde4' \
-DWITH_FAM=OFF \
-DWITH_SOLID_UDISKS2=ON
make
package() {
cd "${srcdir}"/build
make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
# cert bundle seems to be hardcoded
# link it to the one from ca-certificates
rm -f "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/apps/kssl/ca-bundle.crt
ln -sf /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/apps/kssl/ca-bundle.crt
edit: I probably should have posted this in the AUR section...
Last edited by Soukyuu (2015-03-22 11:59:57)

Answer 1

Soukyuu wrote:What the hell? How could it have installed the official 4.14.6-1 version, when it requires kdelibs>=4.11.17? Why does it not install my modified package unless I keep the official name?
Why is that surprising, 4.14 is greater than 4.11, so the requirement is met by the official package.  As to why yours doesn't work, you'd have to share the PKGBUILD that you are using. (edit: you editted while I was posting)
What is the specific pacman command that gives that error?
Last edited by Trilby (2015-03-22 01:23:19)