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On Jul 7 16:36, Jon Turney wrote: > On 07/07/2016 15:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 7 14:46, Jon Turney wrote: > > > At the moment, dependencies which can't be found are silently ignored. > > > Instead, record and report these dependency problems. > > > > Nice idea. > > > > One question, though. Apart from getting a report which won't be read, > > what is a user supposed to do? > > > > In theory, shouldn't calm make sure that the deps exist? > > Yes, in fact it already does so. > > However, that doesn't help in the case of cross-repo dependencies (e.g > cygwinports contains several packages which depend on cygwin packages which > seem to have been removed or renamed) > > It would be nice to have a tool to detect those problems at setup.ini > generation time, but that doesn't exist yet. > > Additionally, adding this check reveals a problem with the way this check is > done in calm, as it reports the following as non-existent dependencies: > > gcc4 (x86 only) -> gcc > logiweb (x86 only) -> gcc > varnish -> gcc, libedit > > This is because setup has, by this stage, discarded source-only packages, > which it doesn't make any sense to depend on. > > I'll make calm check for odd dependencies like that, once I've fixed those > on sourceware. Thank you. Please feel free to apply the patch. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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