From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 127484 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2017 13:43:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 127466 invoked by uid 89); 27 Oct 2017 13:43:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:43:36 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E322091B for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:43:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:43:34 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-113-201.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.113.201]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 25CE47E139 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:43:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Jon Turney Subject: Re: setup and colons in filenames References: <03e94ec4-db88-8997-40a0-1c63b1a010bd@dronecode.org.uk> <87vaj1u7pl.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <5c5b6e17-5268-4a72-7ec0-5a0d399b705b@dronecode.org.uk> <87r2tpu5q1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Message-ID: <266ca31a-8ed4-431e-1574-52b376374a27@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:43:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87r2tpu5q1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 On 26/10/2017 19:25, Achim Gratz wrote: > Jon Turney writes: >> Achim Gratz wrote: >>> Jon Turney writes: >>>> This seems a really odd thing to do, as we've no idea about the >>>> dependencies of these packages, so installing them is unlikely work >>>> well. >>> >>> This particular code path was vetoed from getting thrown out last time I >>> worked in that area since it would break long-standing expectations >>> w.r.t. local package archives that have no setup.ini or even *.hint. >> >>> Can we have a link to that discussion, please? >> >> It's somewhere in that thread from June 2015 related to the changes >> between 2.871 and 2.873. Also one of the intermediate versions got >> complaints due to that code path not working correctly. Using your clues, the only seemingly relevant discussion I found was starting at [1], but I can't find where it says anything like that. https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-06/msg00091.html