Re: [PATCH setup] Finish providing support for provides: and conflicts:

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

[Redirecting to cygwin-apps.]

On 6/18/2018 1:32 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 06/06/2018 21:44, Jon Turney wrote:
> > On 04/04/2018 14:21, Ken Brown wrote:
> > > On 3/21/2018 3:38 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> > > > Introduce member functions SolvableVersion::provides() and
> > > > SolvableVersion::conflicts().  This enables packagedb::read() to
> > > > access provides and conflicts lists from setup.ini.
> > >
> > > Ignore this patch.  It breaks libsolv's dependency processing.
> >
> > Thanks, even if it's not right, I'd completely overlooked the need for 
> > something like this.
>
> Do you have any details on what broke with this?  I've been trying it 
> and I don't notice any problems.

No, I'm sorry.  I don't remember, and I didn't keep any notes about it. 
But I'm pretty sure I had applied the following patchset while testing:

  https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2018-03/msg00033.html

You weren't sure about the second and third patches in that set.  It's 
possible that the breakage only occurs in conjunction with those patches.

Ken