mksetupini: Presence of both 'requires:' and 'depends:' in a PVR.hint file
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Jun 26 20:19:00 GMT 2018
On 24/06/2018 19:28, Ken Brown wrote:
> I'd like to add support to cygport for dependencies with version
> relations. In the course of working on this, I was led to question the
> behavior of mksetupini when a PVR.hint file contains both a 'requires:'
> and a 'depends:' field [*].
>
> Currently, the 'requires:' field gets propagated to the 'requires:'
> field of setup.ini, and the 'depends:' field gets propagated to the
> (version-specific) 'depends2:' field of setup.ini. When setup parses
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/calm.git;a=commitdiff;h=d9c7afb936325431c13557f5845518dae7519a4c;hp=11c23cbac2c196aecfa9c737464ea327d8970711
> setup.ini, the 'depends2:' field takes precedence over the
> (non-version-specific) 'requires:' field.
>
> The net effect, then, is that the 'requires:' field of PVR.hint is
> ignored. Wouldn't it make more sense for mksetupini to fold the
Almost. It's not being ignored by setup versions <2.884.
I'd like to do something to stop those versions from being used in a
moderately graceful way, but that hasn't happened yet :S
> 'requires:' field into the 'depends2:' field of setup.ini?
> Alternatively, maybe we shouldn't allow PVR.hint to contain both
> 'requires:' and 'depends:'
Yeah, this isn't very useful, and should probably be disallowed.
Certainly, I think it would be fine for cygport to just generate
depends: and let mksetupini worry (or not) about older setup versions.
> [*] I can't think of a good reason to create such a .hint file, but it
> appears to be allowed in
> https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint.
More information about the Cygwin-apps
mailing list