Re: [PATCH cygport] pkg_info.cygpart: Do not detect dependencies on itself in ruby package

[Daisuke Fujimura <booleanlabel@gmail.com>]

Using cygport-0.36.9-1 with this patch merged in, it was confirmed
that a ruby-3.3.1 package could be created in the local development
environment.

Thank you for merging.

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 11:12 PM Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 03/04/2024 15:18, Daisuke Fujimura via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > Thank you for reviewing this.
> >
> >> Can you clarify what the "failure" is here?
> >
> [...]
> >
> > /usr/share/rubygems/rubygems.rb:8:in `require': cannot load such file
> > -- rbconfig (LoadError)
> >
> [...]
>
> Thanks very much for the detailed explanation.
>
> So this is an error (or warning?) generated by invoking the
> not-yet-properly installed, just-built ruby in ${D}.
>
> I applied your patch.
>
> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 10:34 PM Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 16/02/2024 12:51, Daisuke Fujimura via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> >>> Attempting to create a package for ruby-3.3, but it fails when trying
> >>> to detect a dependency on itself.
> >>
> >> Thanks for this patch.
> >>
> >> Can you clarify what the "failure" is here?
> >>
> >>> To avoid this, skip them if the target is `ruby`.
> >>
> >> The second hunk seems like a removes the dependency on ruby_xy for the
> >> ruby package, which also provides ruby_xy.
> >>
> >> Historically, we've allowed self-dependencies like this, because they
> >> seem to be benign, although it seems like we could do with some generic
> >> code to suppress them
>
> ... except I added something to generically prevent a packages provides:
> appearing it it's requires:
>