[pacman-dev] CVS update of pacman-lib/pactest (pmenv.py tests/upgrade056.py)

Jason Chu jason at archlinux.org
Wed Feb 28 15:09:08 EST 2007


On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:50:38 -0600
"Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/28/07, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > > in this case, a provides=('foo-2.0') would be useful
> > Yes, in pacman-g2 this is implemented yet (they use this for
> > provide kernel 2.6.20-1), so we just "steal" the patch.
> 
> providing the kernel is a bad idea.  It is an Arch creedo that nothing
> depends=() on the kernel at all, so this provide=() is useless.

While this may be, I think that the idea is good: being able to apply a
version to a provisio.

Jason
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