Installation error for libncursesw6

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Feb 15, 2021, at 11:52 PM, Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 4:07 PM Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Collected errors:
>>> * pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for
>>> libreadline8 found, but incompatible with the architectures configured
>>> * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package libreadline8.
>>> * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies
>>> for softethervpn5-libs:
>>> *      libncursesw6
>>> * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package softethervpn5-libs.
>>> make[2]: *** [package/Makefile:69: package/install] Error 255
>>> 
>>> Multiple packages complain about this... This is from a clean custom build.
>>> Think this is caused by the abi changes to buildroot
>> 
>> reverting c92165038217e49075098479704da58a2a3a89bd fix the problem
> 
> Thanks for tracking down the regression! This has been bugging me too.
> 
> FWIW, I found that the problem seems to be in badly-generated
> libncurses ipk files. The 'control' file seems to have lines like
> this:
> 
> Provides: libncursesw, libncurses, libncursesw
> 
> when it should have:
> 
> Provides: libncursesw, libncurses, libncursesw6
> 
> Brian


Is there a workaround to force an install?

-Philip