From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080821153752.GA13458@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080821152041.GM29104@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:20:41PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 21 11:12, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> > To rephrase: I think it is a bad idea to remove dependencies from
>> > _update-info-dir since so many things rely on it.
>>
>> Unless:
>>
>> 1) all of _update-info-dir's dependencies are already satisfied by the
>> Base category
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2) we carefully map the dependency chains of the basic system-setup
>> packages (cygwin, base-*, a few more?) and deliberately exclude them
>> from getting _update-info-dir added to their dependency list.
>>
>> or
>>
>> 3) somehow add a priority scheme to postinstall scripts, so that in
>> the event of a cycle, setup "starts" traversing the dependency loop at
>> the package with the highest priority.
>>
>> In order of least effort to most, I'd vote #1...
>
>Full ACK.
If only this was a democracy.
I've made the change I mentioned. Neither bash nor texinfo rely on
_update-info-dir.
cgf
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-12 15:35 Setup for 1.7 must still handle 9x? Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-12 18:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-12 20:26 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-12 20:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-12 23:11 ` Ralph Hempel
2008-08-13 8:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-13 10:20 ` New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 8:54 ` Dr. Volker Zell
2008-08-15 10:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 11:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 13:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 13:17 ` Eric Blake
2008-08-15 13:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 13:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 13:46 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-15 14:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 14:16 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-15 14:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 14:04 ` Dave Korn
2008-08-15 14:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 14:18 ` Dave Korn
2008-08-16 12:26 ` Dave Korn
2008-08-19 16:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-20 1:49 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-20 2:46 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-20 7:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-20 14:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-20 14:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-20 15:17 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-20 15:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-20 16:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-20 16:18 ` Charles Wilson
2008-08-20 16:34 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-20 16:49 ` Charles Wilson
2008-08-20 17:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-21 10:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-21 11:09 ` Charles Wilson
2008-08-21 11:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-21 15:02 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-21 15:04 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-21 15:13 ` Charles Wilson
2008-08-21 15:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-21 15:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-22 1:43 ` Eric Blake
2008-08-22 2:07 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-21 15:38 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2008-08-21 15:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-21 16:45 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-22 1:37 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 7:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-22 7:55 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 8:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-22 8:59 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 9:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-25 10:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-25 14:33 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-25 15:28 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-25 15:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-25 15:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-25 16:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-25 17:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-27 17:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-27 18:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-28 7:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-28 14:18 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-28 15:01 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-28 19:05 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-29 8:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-27 19:08 ` Ralph Hempel
2008-08-28 7:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-28 12:30 ` Ralph Hempel
2008-08-26 8:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-26 12:05 ` Charles Wilson
2008-08-26 12:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-22 13:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-20 16:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-20 15:28 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-20 16:03 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-15 14:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 10:15 ` Dr. Volker Zell
2008-08-15 10:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 11:47 ` Dr. Volker Zell
2008-08-15 11:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 12:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 13:58 ` Dr. Volker Zell
2008-08-15 14:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 19:24 ` Eric Blake
2008-08-15 19:34 ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-08-15 19:37 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-16 13:38 ` Dave Korn
2008-08-14 9:54 Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 5:14 ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-08-15 11:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 11:59 ` Eric Blake
2008-08-15 12:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-15 21:01 ` Charles Wilson
2008-08-15 23:28 ` Charles Wilson
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