From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10988 invoked by alias); 21 Aug 2008 04:22:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 10975 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Aug 2008 04:22:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (HELO py-out-1112.google.com) (64.233.166.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:21:29 +0000 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w53so521970pyg.25 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.210.19 with SMTP id m19mr1751084qbq.54.1219292486786; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.101? ( [24.76.249.6]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm3910226qbw.6.2008.08.20.21.21.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48ACED44.4060902@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:22:00 -0000 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Obsolete packages References: <48880879.5050400@users.sourceforge.net> <20080724094313.GG5251@calimero.vinschen.de> <488913D9.8070809@users.sourceforge.net> <20080725094034.GR5251@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080730121815.GM29031@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080730121815.GM29031@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00202.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > What if we add an "obsoletes:" line to setup.{ini,hint}? > > The idea is that you don't have to provide empty replacement packages > for the old packages anymore, and setup removes all packages noted in > the "obsoletes:" line before installing the new package, in the same > step as when replaing old versions of the same package. > > Would that work? Wouldn't that ease the transition to new package > schemes a lot? Any progress yet on this one? Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkis7UQACgkQpiWmPGlmQSM4VwCgpGQKwhSzDfB1sGsFFLDCFiOC KcMAoKPmRNZ4PQlRPA74jgKEShLn8/S6 =MaIg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----