setup and "provides:" on third party repository

[Jon Turney]

On 06/01/2022 06:57, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> one think that I noted recently is that setup is not storing the
> "provides:" information on the installation.
> 
> Noted specially with perl module
> 
> perl_base "provides: perl5_032"
> 
> perl-gdal "depends2: .. perl5_032, perl_base"
> 
> So now, when I use my internal server for test/update, setup proposes to 
> uninstall perl-gdal as no package provides perl5_032 and a lot of time
> I missed to note and overwrite the proposal.

This might not happen if you have *both* a cygwin mirror and your 
internal package server selected as download sites.

> It is a bit annoying, can you put in the TODO list ?

Yes, we should generally store all the information from setup.ini for a 
package when it's installed, but we don't currently (and do some 
contortions to make up for that lack).

Adding this is non-trivial because the current installed.db format is 
not adequate for that task.