On 15/02/16 08:31, Xyne wrote: > On 2016-02-14 21:37 +0000 > Xyne wrote: > >> On 2016-02-14 15:31 -0500 >> Dave Reisner wrote: >> >>> Note that you can now also use makepkg to list the names of the packages >>> that it would generate, using the --packagelist flag. >> >> I am going to use that as a workaround but even after splitting apart the >> components (pkgname, pkgver, arch) and making sure that the name matches, it >> will require assumptions about the package archive extension (or sourcing of >> makepkg.conf, but that requires knowledge of which makepkg.conf was used to >> be >> rigorous). Nothing comes close to the cleanliness of the --pkg option. >> >> Incidentally, that option was also useful to avoid storing unwanted packages >> at >> PKGDEST. > > Implementing the workaround right now I've noticed that another issue with the > separate invocation of pacman -U is that any dependencies installed via > "makepkg -rs" are removed and then re-installed during installation with > pacman, while omitting "-r" will leave makedeps. >
pamcan -U deals with dependency resolution.
