From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 00/10] Various setup patches
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160804175958.GI25811@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shuk2za0.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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On Aug 4 19:56, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >> The checksum information has to come from somewhere and that somewhere
> >> requires a package install or update. Together with that new setup we might
> >> have an update of cygccheck and some unrelated packages that happen to
> >> have been rebuilt recently, but certainly not the whole distribution.
> >
> > Why is that important? The checksums will collect over time.
>
> That's the plan, but then you'll have to deal with missing checksums
> while that particular strand of hair grows out.
>
> > I don't think I understand what you're up to. Why is it important
> > to add the extra information all at once? And if that's the case,
> > couldn't we use a runonce postinstall script for that?
>
> I was interpreting your reply that you wanted the tools to only support
> the new list formats.
Oh, no, sorry if I was unclear but I would like the tools just to
adapt so that they don't choke on new formats while still working
happily on the old formats.
Corinna
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-02 15:31 Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 04/10] Downgrade "Running preremove script" logging to debug Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 06/10] Remove obsolete installed_from member from packagemeta Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 10/10] Reserve paths starting "." for package metadata Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 05/10] Properly report progress in PrereqChecker::isMet Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 02/10] Prevent libtool warning that a getopt++ shared library cannot be built Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 03/10] Add lex and yacc generated files to .gitignore Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 01/10] Remove stray execute permissions Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 09/10] Add an additional filter view, showing packages which were user picked Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 07/10] Remove unused fn member from cygpackage Jon Turney
2016-08-02 15:31 ` [PATCH setup 08/10] Track if a package was installed by user, or as a dependency Jon Turney
2016-08-03 10:49 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-03 7:10 ` [PATCH setup 00/10] Various setup patches Achim Gratz
2016-08-03 8:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-03 9:52 ` Achim Gratz
2016-08-03 17:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-03 18:28 ` Achim Gratz
2016-08-03 18:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-03 19:52 ` Achim Gratz
2016-08-04 11:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-04 17:57 ` Achim Gratz
2016-08-04 18:00 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-08-04 19:26 ` Achim Gratz
2016-08-03 17:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-05-23 16:46 Jon Turney
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