[pacman-dev] [PATCH 4/5] makepkg: add soprovides support

[Florian Pritz]

On 21.01.2011 15:49, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Florian Pritz
> <bluewind at server-speed.net> wrote:
>> On 19.01.2011 19:54, Dan McGee wrote:
>>> It is most definitely not a valid pkgver (dash) or pkgrel (not a
>>> number).
>>
>> The dash here just seperates pkgver from pkgrel.
>>
>> Did a quick test with libc.so=6-x86_64_Linux as dependency and a package
>> called libc.so with that pkgver and pkgrel and it worked just fine.

> Perhaps more importantly, this is still wrong (I can't run your i686
> binary on my i386 system as it seems to indicate)

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-February/010410.html

> and if we do keep
> it, it has *nothing* to do with a version in the normal ordering
> sense- it would belong as part of the provision name.

I had that before and Allan didn't like it.

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-February/010420.html

-- 
Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net

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