From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: The upload system is live (Re: Major changes coming to procedure for uploading to sourceware)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131022202614.GA3767@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4bdqct6.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:18:45PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>> I don't see any reason for a delete file since only files referenced
>> by setup.hint should exist in the release directory.
>
>There are currently a handful of packages where an earlier version than
>"previous" is kept (ostensibly so that this version can be installed by
>hand when chosing the "previous" version of another package which
>requires it). I wouldn't mind a "keep" keyword in setup.hint for those
>cases.
If someone is intentionally doing this then this isn't supported
behavior. If files aren't there for the purposes of setup.exe then they
really shouldn't be in the release directory at all.
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-22 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-12 20:22 Major changes coming to procedure for uploading to sourceware (long) Christopher Faylor
2013-10-16 16:52 ` The upload system is live (Re: Major changes coming to procedure for uploading to sourceware) Christopher Faylor
2013-10-17 4:30 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-10-22 16:40 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2013-10-22 18:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-10-22 19:38 ` Achim Gratz
2013-10-22 19:59 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-10-22 20:18 ` Achim Gratz
2013-10-22 20:26 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2013-10-22 17:59 ` Andrew Schulman
2013-10-23 2:47 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2013-10-23 16:51 ` Reini Urban
2013-10-23 17:37 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-10-17 19:19 ` Major changes coming to procedure for uploading to sourceware (long) Achim Gratz
2013-10-17 19:33 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-10-17 20:24 ` Achim Gratz
2013-10-18 18:43 ` Achim Gratz
2013-10-18 19:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-10-18 20:39 ` Achim Gratz
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