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

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 6/18/2018 1:49 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> [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.

It's coming back to me now.  I think I was testing the following 
situation: I created an installed package A that was being updated 
(possibly because of a command-line option).  I made A require a version 
of a package B higher than the installed version, so that the update of 
A should have forced an update of B.  This wasn't working reliably.  And 
if I manually chose to keep the installed version of B, libsolv wasn't 
reliably reporting a problem.

I'll try again to reproduce this, but it might be a few days until I can 
get to it.

Ken