X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Original-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: cygwin@cygwin.com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 35A813858C3A Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=dronecode.org.uk Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=dronecode.org.uk Authentication-Results: btinternet.com; auth=pass (PLAIN) smtp.auth=jonturney@btinternet.com; bimi=skipped X-SNCR-Rigid: 613006A911D3958A X-Originating-IP: [81.129.146.209] X-OWM-Source-IP: 81.129.146.209 (GB) X-OWM-Env-Sender: jonturney@btinternet.com X-VadeSecure-score: verdict=clean score=0/300, class=clean X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvuddrudehuddggeeiucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuueftkffvkffujffvgffngfevqffopdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddunecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmdenucfjughrpefkffggfgfuvfhfhfgjtgfgsehtjeertddtfeejnecuhfhrohhmpeflohhnucfvuhhrnhgvhicuoehjohhnrdhtuhhrnhgvhiesughrohhnvggtohguvgdrohhrghdruhhkqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeffkeeigfdujeehteduiefgjeeltdelgeelteekudetfedtffefhfeufefgueettdenucfkphepkedurdduvdelrddugeeirddvtdelnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehhvghloheplgduledvrdduieekrddurddutdefngdpihhnvghtpeekuddruddvledrudegiedrvddtledpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehjohhnrdhtuhhrnhgvhiesughrohhnvggtohguvgdrohhrghdruhhkpdhrtghpthhtoheptgihghifihhnsegthihgfihinhdrtghomhdprhgtphhtthhopehmrghrtghordgrthiivghrihesghhmrghilhdrtghomh X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean Message-ID: <08289968-cc01-177b-e332-508ceb79d56c@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:55:17 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.4.1 Subject: Re: setup and "provides:" on third party repository Content-Language: en-GB To: Marco Atzeri , The Cygwin Mailing List References: From: Jon Turney In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3571.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, FORGED_SPF_HELO, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com Sender: "Cygwin" On 06/01/2022 06:57, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Hi Jon, > > one think that I noted recently is that setup is not storing the > "provides:" information on the installation. > > Noted specially with perl module > > perl_base "provides: perl5_032" > > perl-gdal "depends2: .. perl5_032, perl_base" > > So now, when I use my internal server for test/update, setup proposes to > uninstall perl-gdal as no package provides perl5_032 and a lot of time > I missed to note and overwrite the proposal. This might not happen if you have *both* a cygwin mirror and your internal package server selected as download sites. > It is a bit annoying, can you put in the TODO list ? Yes, we should generally store all the information from setup.ini for a package when it's installed, but we don't currently (and do some contortions to make up for that lack). Adding this is non-trivial because the current installed.db format is not adequate for that task. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple