On 10/8/2018 10:41 AM, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 10/7/2018 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I've been experimenting with setup's support for the 'provides:' tag, and
>> it's
>> not behaving the way I expect [*]. I'm not sure if something in setup's
>> interface with libsolv needs to be tweaked or if I'm just misunderstanding
>> how
>> this should work. Here's what I tried:
>>
>
> Shouldn't there be a need for a 'conflicts:' tag as well?
setup does support a 'conflicts:' tag, but I don't see why I should need
it here.
>> I created a test repo with packages A, B, and C. I made A require foo (not a
>> package), and I made B and C provide foo. The attached script does all this
>> [**]. I then ran setup and selected A for installation.
>>
>
> So C:foo conflicts with B:foo.
I'm not sure what you mean by C:foo and B:foo. My intention is that
"foo" is an identifier for a single requirement, which can be provided
by B or C or both. I explicitly want to allow both to be installed, so
I don't want B and C to conflict with one another.
Here's an example (modeled on what Fedora does): Cygwin has four
packages that provide emacs binaries: emacs, emacs-X11, emacs-lucid, and
emacs-w32. Users can install any or all of these if they want to be
able to run emacs. The differences are in the UI. These packages don't
conflict with one another.
If some other package requires an emacs binary, I would like it to be
able to require "emacs-bin". [This plays the role of "foo" in my test
case.] Then I would like to be able to say that all four emacs packages
above provide "emacs-bin".
>> The result was that libsolv simply chose B for installation, and setup showed
>> this in the "Confirm" dialog. What I expected was that libsolv would report
>> a
>> problem ("A requires foo but no selected or installed packages provide it"),
>> with two possible solutions ("Install B or C"). Is that expectation
>> unreasonable?
>>
>
> Not unreasonable but what happens if B:foo is already installed and
> C:foo is the required because the functionality is slightly different?
See above.
Ken
