On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 23:34 +0200, Mark wrote: > Does your provides database include every file provided by > every > package? > > so that if you encounter: > > Requires: /some/path/to/a/file > > it can resolve it? > > if there is another package that has "/some/path/to/a/file" in it`s > Provides i can resolve it. otherwise i can`t. (yet) > > also how are you doing your versioned-dep calculation? Are you > calling > out to rpm for the rpm version comparisons? > > that`s not that hard at all. > i just have a table with the package id, package provides/requires and > the version of the requires/provides though this can use some > tweaking. > > how are you checking to see if the package foo-1.3-1 provides > that > dependency or not? > > to put it simple: > SELECT * FROM PROVIDES WHERE provide_id = '##' AND provide_name = > 'foo-1.3-1'; > (simple sample.. it`s not the query that i actually use.. that`s alot > longer :P) That won't work. That only checks for the precise provide, not for the ranges. example: bar requires foo > 1.1 you only have foo 1.3 now, implicitly in the above is that foo 1.3 fulfills the dep of foo > 1.1 So you have to check to see that the ranges overlap. Do you understand now? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
