Source files unavailable + change embedded installation option

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#1

I cannot download neither from pkgman nor from Haikudepot (after enabling source and devel packages in show menu) the source packages, for example pyqt_builder_source or pyqt5_sip_source. If I type pkgman search pyqt5_sip_source
it returns:
pyqt5_sip_source The PEP 517 Compliant PyQt Build System (source files)
so pkgman lists it but doesn’t install the package

trying to do a
pip3.7 install PyQtWebEngine
or
pip3.8… or pip3.9
it seems he cannot build sip, and gives this error:
Command errored out with exit status 1: /bin/python3.7 /packages/python3-3.7.10-4/.self/lib/python3.7/vendor-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /boot/system/cache/tmp/pip-build-env-h917bhpb/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple – ‘sip >=5.3, <7’ ‘PyQt-builder >=1.9, <2’ Check the logs for full command output.

I wanted to remove the ignore-installed option because pyqt5_sip pyqt5_sip_python38 pyqt5_sip_python39 pyqt_builder pyqt_builder_python38 pyqt_builder_python39 are installed
but I don’t know how to do it, anyone experienced?

#2

What do you try to accomplish? AFAIK You are not supposed to use the source packages. You should however read the haikuporter wiki, probably.

#3

And btw QtWebEngine is not available/supported/ported for Haiku. Yet.

#4

Well that was the point, I realized that qrcode module for python works and installs fine if I “pip install” it. So I tried with QtWebEngine without luck, is haikuporter the only way to handle this stuff?

btw, if I am not supposed to use the source packages, why are them listed? It confuses me

#5

It wont work, because the reasons i listed earlier.

Some licenses enforces source releases.

#6

No, but for that you are supposed to know Haiku well enough under the hood.

#7

thank you for the explanations

one more thing is not clear to me: if some license enforces source releases, the sources listed in pkgman are not downloadable because they are hosted elsewhere and compiled in haikuports?

#8

You can download the hpkgs manually, for sure. But trust me: you dont need them, as everything is in the haikuports git repository, use that.

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#9

there is a bug report: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9990

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