[TRANSLATE] web/xml/packaging packaging.en.xml,1.56,1.57

Daniel Macks <[email protected]> said:
>
> Modified Files:
> 	packaging.en.xml 
> Log Message:
> Document that Provides packages contain no versioning information.
>
> Index: packaging.en.xml
>===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/web/xml/packaging/packaging.en.xml,v
> retrieving revision 1.56
> retrieving revision 1.57
> diff -u -d -r1.56 -r1.57
> --- packaging.en.xml	13 Dec 2004 23:24:13 -0000	1.56
> +++ packaging.en.xml	31 Jan 2005 16:20:27 -0000	1.57
> @@ -1593,6 +1593,15 @@
>  You'll usually also want to name these packages in the "Conflicts" and
>  the "Replaces" field.
> </p>
> +<p>
> +Note that there is no versioning data associated with Provides
> +items. They do not inherit from the parent package that contains the
> +Provides list nor is there a syntax for specifing an arbitrary version
> +in the Provides field itself. Further, a dependency that contains a
> +version specification is not satisfied by a package that Provides that
> +needed package name. As a result, having many variants all Provides a
> +single surrogate package name may not be very useful in many cases.
> +</p>
> </itemd></item>
>  
> <item><itemt>Conflicts</itemt>


-- 
Daniel Macks
[email protected]
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks




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