Hi,
Sorry this has taken me a while... so long in fact that I do not have
the original email stored anymore to reply to.
But here goes my comments on the patches for soname provides/depends:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-February/010431.html
My comments are currently only on functionality. I'll get to code after
that is fully sorted.
Firstly, it works well and does as advertised. So no issues there...
However:
1) If I put a bad soname provides in the array (e.g.
provides="readline.so") it just silently ignores it. No error and
nothing put in the .PKGINFO. There needs to be an error (or at minimum
a warning). The same goes for depends (although these are mostly
caught by the initial dependency checking in makepkg).
2) Building readline on i686 with provides="libreadline.so", in the
.PKGINFO I get:
provides = libreadline.so=6-elf32_i386
My concern about that is that the library is not i386 but is i686. I
may be prepared to accept that though as I guess x86 is x86 really...
But what additional information is the elf32 providing? I could perhaps
understand the operating system from the host triplet. If anything, my
preferences are:
libreadline.so=6-i686_linux (best)
libreadline.so=6-i686 / libreadline.so=6-i386_linux
libreadline.so=6-i386 (worst)
Allan
