From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>,
The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: setup and "provides:" on third party repository
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:55:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <08289968-cc01-177b-e332-508ceb79d56c@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4d32aed-12d7-30e6-80b3-a3cce9ed8386@gmail.com>
On 06/01/2022 06:57, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> one think that I noted recently is that setup is not storing the
> "provides:" information on the installation.
>
> Noted specially with perl module
>
> perl_base "provides: perl5_032"
>
> perl-gdal "depends2: .. perl5_032, perl_base"
>
> So now, when I use my internal server for test/update, setup proposes to
> uninstall perl-gdal as no package provides perl5_032 and a lot of time
> I missed to note and overwrite the proposal.
This might not happen if you have *both* a cygwin mirror and your
internal package server selected as download sites.
> It is a bit annoying, can you put in the TODO list ?
Yes, we should generally store all the information from setup.ini for a
package when it's installed, but we don't currently (and do some
contortions to make up for that lack).
Adding this is non-trivial because the current installed.db format is
not adequate for that task.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-10 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-06 6:57 Marco Atzeri
2022-01-06 11:15 ` Achim Gratz
2022-01-06 11:35 ` Marco Atzeri
2022-01-10 15:55 ` Jon Turney [this message]
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