Re: pkg_summary(5), PROVIDES and REQUIRES

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> But there are a few dozens of packages that list a library in REQUIRES
> not provided by any other package. Actually the package itself provides
> it but it is not listed in PROVIDES.
> 
> For example,
> 
>    pkg_info -X perl
> 
> shows the following
> 
>    
> REQUIRES=/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-netbsd-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
> 
> This file is provided by perl package itself but it is not listed in
> PROVIDES.
> 
> To me this looks like a problem. Can anybody explain this?

The perl problem is probably due to expression not matching reality.
This is in pkgsrc/mk/flavor/pkg/metadata.mk             

/(^|\/)lib\/lib.*\.so\.[0-9]+$$/

Maybe could be like:

/(^|\/)lib\/.*\/lib.*\.so\.[0-9]+$$/

Sure seems like I brought this up before. Now I found it:

http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=netbsd-tech-pkg&a=2009-04&t=10432747

See second email in thread mentions the same perl issue. I forgot about 
it. Needs a bug ticket probably to remember.