From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Obsolete packages
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728084637.GH29031@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488D2CE3.4040505@users.sourceforge.net>
On Jul 27 21:20, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> | 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.
>
> Could setup-1.7 know if the last installation was 1.5, and simply ignore
> the installed.db?
Sounds good. It could check the last installed Cygwin version in
installed.db, or it could check if the new
"{HKLM,HKCU}/Software/Cygwin/root" registry key exists or not.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 8:45 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
2008-07-25 16:13 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-28 2:20 ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-28 8:45 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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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