pikaur -G don’t work if there is a dependency problem

[Br31zh]

Pikaur v1.11
Pacman v6.0.1 - libalpm v13.0.1 - pyalpm v0.10.6

Description:

I’m trying to get the source files of the mumble/murmur package:

On x86_64:

pikaur -G mumble --verbose --pikaur-debug
:: debug: Pikaur operation found for sys.argv=['/usr/bin/pikaur', '-G', 'mumble', '--verbose', '--pikaur-debug']: cli_getpkgbuild
=> GET https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=mumble
Reading repository package databases...
=> pacman --color=always --sync mumble --print-format %r/%n

Package 'mumble' going to be cloned into '/tmp/mumble'...
=> asp checkout mumble
Cloning into 'mumble'...
done.

On aarch64 (Arch Linux ARM):

pikaur -G mumble --verbose --pikaur-debug
:: debug: Pikaur operation found for sys.argv=['/usr/bin/pikaur', '-G', 'mumble', '--verbose', '--pikaur-debug']: cli_getpkgbuild
=> GET https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=mumble
Reading repository package databases...
=> pacman --color=always --sync mumble --print-format %r/%n
:: warning: Following package cannot be found in AUR:
    mumble  

So I tried the pacman command on the aarch64:

pacman --color=always --sync mumble --print-format %r/%n
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libprotobuf.so=31-64' required by mumble

Since I’m using the -G to get the PKGBUILD so I can fix the dependency problem, it’s a bit annoying :sweat_smile:. Is it possible to add --nodeps on the pacman command used by the -G option? Or can it create others problems?

Thanks.

[actionless]

i think it would rather make sense to bypass --nodeps option from pikaur -G to underlaying pacman command which causing the error in this case

[Br31zh]

This is a good idea, but in this case we need to get the dependency error, so that we know how to fix it. Even in verbose or debug mode it don’t explain why, I had to launch manually the pacman command to know the problem.