Item10455: pseudo-install need to ignore ONLYIF dependencies

pseudo-install cries "Wolf" all the time about missing dependencies.

They are bogus and a result of not understanding ONLYIF

I do not think we need it to be very intelligent. Just ignoring ONLYIF and all that follows is probably OK for development as a dev will not be pseudo-installing on an old release. And if he is he will need to figure out this dependency without this noise.

It is bad to send bogus errors because it means we all go blind when a new and important errors shows up.

-- KennethLavrsen - 08 Mar 2011

The "fix" committed to pseudo-install is anything but.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 20 Aug 2012

Fixed it properly.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 29 Aug 2012

Not quiet... See, in pseudo-install.pl, when we require a module, the code looks like this:

    {
        local $SIG{__WARN__};
        return eval "require $mod; 1"
    }

The reason being that requiring a module might fiddle with $SIG{__WARN__}. Eg: you require Foswiki and you have FOSWIKI_ASSERTS=1, then Foswiki will set $SIG{__WARN__} to die. Good luck debuggin that, took me 2h even though I was the one putting the aforementionned code in the first place.

Anyway, I've fixed both entries, and now it passes.

-- OlivierRaginel - 02 Sep 2012

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