[pacman-dev] Please use _alpm_depcmp!

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 13:33:21 EDT 2007


On 4/1/07, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> Hi!
> We have this nice function, but it is very rarely used in libalpm
> source. In most cases it is reimplemented (see
> trans.c/_alpm_trans_update_depends for example); but there is a bigger
> problem: in many cases only a package-name comparison is used to check
> dependencies, which may lead problems (I concerned about this in my
> previous mails:
> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-March/002155.html for
> example).
> So the whole source should be checked, and this would lead to
> a much cleaner and more bug-free code.

patches are welcome




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