This patch series presupposes the name change of DEPEND to BUILD_DEPENDS proposed by Jon in https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-10/msg00018.html.
Ever since setup began using libsolv, setup (and calm) are able to support dependencies with version relations. These can be specified in the 'depends:' field of a .hint file like this: depends: cygwin (>=2.10), bash (=4.4.12-3) This patch series adds cygport support for such dependencies. The user can specify versioned dependencies via a new [PKG_]DEPENDS variable, and cygport generates versioned dependencies in its auto-generated .hint files. The latter is intended to avoid problems like the one reported here: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-03/msg00365.html An obvious potential problem is the confusion between the new DEPENDS and the old DEPEND (which is an obsolete alias for BUILD_DEPENDS after Jon's renaming). I've chosen to ignore that problem in these patches, except for a warning in the documentation. At the very least, a HEADSUP email to maintainers will be required. Alternatively, we could drop DEPENDS and insist on PKG_DEPENDS even if there's only one package. Ken Brown (4): pkg_dist: use 'depends:' instead of 'requires:' in generated .hint files pkg_dist: add support for dependencies with version relations pkg_dist: record package versions in "depends:" Update sample.cygport data/sample.cygport | 10 ++++- lib/pkg_pkg.cygpart | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 2.17.0
