cygcheck-dep and _obsolete packages

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Thu Mar 15 23:46:00 GMT 2018


On 15/03/2018 18:21, Mikhail Usenko via cygwin wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:57:05 +0100
> Marco Atzeri <...> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mikhail,
>>
>> as latest setup skips the installation of _obsolete packages
>> can you adjust the behaviour of cygcheck-dep to ignore
>> the false warning ?
>>
>> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep: WARNING: broken dependencies:
>> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep:   installed package 'cygwin/xorg-server-devel'
>> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep:   depends on the following required packages that are
>> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep:   not installed; these dependencies will be discarded
>> /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep: ( fontsproto inputproto kbproto presentproto
>> randrproto renderproto resourceproto scrnsaverproto xextproto
>> xf86bigfontproto xineramaproto xproto )
>>
> 
> Hello, Marco
> I will change the script (along with dropping cygwinports support).
> At present cygcheck-dep prints out exactly what setup.ini claims about
> what the package is requiring, and as per I have understood, now setup.exe
> does not install requisites from the _obsolete category, using instead
> the packages by which they are obsoleted.

Just to be clear, the category is irrelevant here, it's the fact that 
xorgproto obsoletes these packages that is significant.

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