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Re: cygcheck-dep and _obsolete packages
- From: "Mikhail Usenko via cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:21:10 +0300
- Subject: Re: cygcheck-dep and _obsolete packages
- References: <24e80e4b-974b-0266-81e6-1949cdac1bb4@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: Mikhail Usenko <cygwin at inbox dot ru>
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:57:05 +0100
Marco Atzeri <...> wrote:
> Hi Mikhail,
>
> as latest setup skips the installation of _obsolete packages
> can you adjust the behaviour of cygcheck-dep to ignore
> the false warning ?
>
> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep: WARNING: broken dependencies:
> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep: installed package 'cygwin/xorg-server-devel'
> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep: depends on the following required packages that are
> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep: not installed; these dependencies will be discarded
> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep: ( fontsproto inputproto kbproto presentproto
> randrproto renderproto resourceproto scrnsaverproto xextproto
> xf86bigfontproto xineramaproto xproto )
>
Hello, Marco
I will change the script (along with dropping cygwinports support).
At present cygcheck-dep prints out exactly what setup.ini claims about
what the package is requiring, and as per I have understood, now setup.exe
does not install requisites from the _obsolete category, using instead
the packages by which they are obsoleted.
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