From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Obsolete packages
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080725151630.GW5251@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080725145243.GB9959@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On Jul 25 10:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:40:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Nice example. Still, for now we should assume that we go the upgrade
> >path. I'm going to investigate the impact of a clean cut in the next
> >couple of days.
>
> It seems like maybe another change to setup.exe would be in order here
> or maybe there could be a base package which did any cleanup required to
> purge unneeded packages.
Another base package sounds like an interesting idea. OTOH, setup would
use the existing local setup database and might get something wrong
before the new base package has a chance to do the cleanup. Baah.
Maybe we could provide an upgrade helper script which should run *before*
running setup for the ultimate upgrade.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-25 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 4:44 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-24 9:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-24 23:44 ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-25 9:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-25 14:53 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-25 15:16 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2008-07-25 16:13 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-28 2:20 ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-28 8:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-28 16:40 ` Brian Dessent
2008-07-30 12:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-30 15:01 ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-30 15:25 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-21 4:22 ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-08-21 8:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-21 10:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-21 11:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-22 1:30 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 8:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-22 8:53 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 9:12 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 9:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-22 9:30 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 10:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-22 10:54 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-25 10:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-22 9:26 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 11:25 ` Charles Wilson
2008-08-21 23:47 ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-25 19:31 ` Nicholas Wourms
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