Note when installing CheckDepends are still refered to as MakeDepends.
They are both only needed during build time so technically that is
correct. I don't see much of a use creating a third field so I'm leaving
it as is for now.
This should not make any real difference as pkgnames and pkgvers
should not contain whitespace. But there was a problem where a packagepkg
connected two deps by quoting them.
depends=('make qt5-tools')
Because we split on spaces this caused yay to generate an error saying
it couldn't find 'make' when instead it should say it cant find
'make qt5tools' which was a little confusing.
This commit should fix the misleading error.
Split packages are now grouped together when printing displaying the
package base and the packages inside of the base to beinstalled. If only
one packge is to be installed from a base and the package name matches
the base name print normally
Only build and install once per package base
Only ask questions once per package base for editing pkgbuils and clean
build
Sometimes yay will not list all of the dependancies it needs when
installing packages. I mostly noticed this on libjpeg-turbo and the
issue was that the packages requring libjpeg-turbo were only requesting
libjpeg which was provided by libjpeg-turbo.
Now when we cache package info from the syncdb also alias the package name
to all of it's provides.
I have replaced the old install and dependancy algorithms with a new
design that attemps to be more pacaur like. Mostly in minimizing user
input. Ask every thing first then do everything with no need for more
user input.
It is not yet fully complete but is finished enough so that it works,
should not fail in most cases and provides a base for more contributors
to help address the existing problems.
The new install chain is as follows:
Source info about the provided targets
Fetch a list of all dependancies needed to install targets
I put alot of effort into fetching the dependancy tree
while making the least amount of aur requests as
possible. I'm actually very happy with how it turned out
and yay wil now resolve dependancies noticably faster
than pacaur when there are many aur dependancies.
Install repo targets by passing to pacman
Print dependancy tree and ask to confirm
Ask to clean build if directory already exists
Download all pkgbuilds
Ask to edit all pkgbuilds
Ask to continue with the install
Download the sources for each packagebuild
Build and install every package
using -s to get repo deps and -i to install
Ask to remove make dependancies
There are still a lot of things that need to be done for a fully working
system. Here are the problems I found with this system, either new or
existing:
Formating
I am not so good at formatting myself, I thought best to
leave it until last so I could get feedback on how it
should look and help implementing it.
Dependancy tree
The dependancy tree is usually correct although I have
noticed times where it doesnt detect all the
dependancies that it should. I have only noticed this
when there are circular dependancies so i think this
might be the cause. It's not a big deal currently
because makepkg -i installed repo deps for us which
handles the repo deps for us and will get the correct
ones. So yay might not list all the dependancies. but
they will get installed so I consider this a visual bug.
I have yet to see any circular dependancies in the AUR
so I can not say what will happend but I#m guessing that
it will break.
Versioned packages/dependencies
Targets and dependancies with version constriants such
as 'linux>=4.1' will not be checked on the aur side of
things but will be checked on the repo side.
Ignorepkg/Ignoregroup
Currently I do not handle this in any way but it
shouldn't be too hard to implement.
Conflict checking
This is not currently implemented either
Split Paclages
Split packages are not Handles properly. If we only
specify one package so install from a split package
makepkg -i ends up installing them all anyway. If we
specify more than one (n) package it will actually build the
package base n times and reinstall every split package
n times.
Makepkg
To get things working I decided to keep using the
makepkg -i method. I plan to eventually replace this
with a pacman -U based method. This should allow passing
args such as --dbpath and --config to aur packages
aswell as help solve some problems such as the split
packages.
Clean build
I plan to improve the clean build choice to be a little
more smart and instead of check if the directory exists,
check if the package is already build and if so skip the
build all together.
