Re: RFC: generate automatic setup.hint with g-b-s?

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
> Am Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004 um 19:02 schriebst du:
> > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > > Christopher schrieb:
> > > > upset: *** warning package libsasl2 requires non-existent package libdb42
> > > > upset: *** warning package libsasl2-devel requires non-existent package libdb42
> > >
> > > Has someone a g-b-s function handy that creates a setup.hint template
> > > from the packagename and the depend(encies) output?
>
> > I doubt it.  Care to write one?  In fact, perhaps we should add a
> > setup.hint template file ("generic-setup.hint"?), and use that instead of
> > embedding the setup.hint contents into the g-b-s...
>
>
> Well, just thought about it, it could be similar to the depend()
> function, just print out the dependcies in one line without versions,
> so I could copy and paste it, that would be sufficient (for the
> beginning), ideally it could be done in the depend() function as well,
> since we already have the data, so why not provide different formats?

requires is already in my patch I posted last week.
sdesc and ldesc are a bit hard to retrieve.
external-source would be easy.

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