Re: pkg_summary(5), PROVIDES and REQUIRES

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

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> pkg/42907

Thanks.

> How about the following patch?
> 
> A few notes about it:
> 1) \.[0-9]+$ and \.[0-9\.]+$ regexp patterns have been replaced
>   with (\.[0-9]+)?$ for obvious reasons
> 2) libxxx.so symlinks are explicitely removed from PROVIDES

I don't understand this. Isn't it possible for something to require a 
.so file that could be a symlink? Or is there an existing check for that 
elsewhere? Nevertheless, I can't find any example of this on my own 
system, so probably okay.

Thanks