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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2016-01-26 18:30:29 +1000
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2016-01-26 18:34:33 +1000
commit599520e489e59d127d2423d57d95f667849f286a (patch)
tree89e432c73e493c38b44382a8afa38767bf9972f7 /doc
parent4291500c82b04bccc0509b6583d7bf266c87906a (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>
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@@ -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*::