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

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Jun 18 17:49:00 GMT 2018


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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



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