From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 0/3] Setup replacement for incver_ifdep
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56532D5C.1020103@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oag0qad3.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 15/10/2015 19:01, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Jon Turney writes:
>>> I still don't think the triggers should be implemented or at least not
>>> in the way you've been proposing.
>>
>> Can you explain the reason why?
>
> Triggers need to be coordinated among packages and we currently don't
> have an infrastructure for that. And implementing just a single trigger
> for info files is special-casing this thing too much.
>
>> I think that's more or less what I implemented.
>
> I'm talking about doing it with a perpetual postinstall script.
>
>>> But it would be possible to just add /
>>> remove the corresponding entries with a bit more bookkeeping. I'll try
>>> something of that, but not immediately.
>>
>> I guess that list of matching files added/removed could be written
>> into or associated with the trigger file, but the benefit starts to
>> look a bit marginal, (especially as this is not intended as a general
>> solution, but only for use with _update-info-dir, and other future
>> package-to-package triggers are written directly in the packages
>> themselves)
>
> Again, I don't see why updating the info dir should be so special, it
> can be done in postinstall without getting special-cased in setup:
I agree.
But I think the problem of coordination you mention can only be solved
by (a) updating all ~155 packages which contain files in
/usr/share/info, or (b) having something in setup or it's postinstall
scripts which notices when a file is added/removed in that directory.
I don't think (a) is practical at the moment, although I hope it is
clear in my proposal that I am suggesting that ultimately all those
packages should create the trigger file in their postinstall/preremove
scripts.
I still don't understand what alternative way to achieve (b) you are
proposing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-23 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-22 15:53 Jon Turney
2015-09-22 15:53 ` [PATCH setup 2/3] Remove unfinished, unused support for 'autodep:' lines in setup.ini Jon Turney
2015-09-22 15:53 ` [PATCH setup 3/3] Add support for 'trigger:' " Jon Turney
2015-09-22 15:54 ` [PATCH setup 1/3] Remove unused regex code Jon Turney
2015-09-22 17:33 ` [PATCH setup 0/3] Setup replacement for incver_ifdep Achim Gratz
2015-09-23 17:17 ` Jon Turney
2015-09-23 18:09 ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-12 13:16 ` Jon Turney
2015-10-12 17:38 ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-15 13:18 ` Jon Turney
2015-10-15 18:01 ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-19 15:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-10-19 17:21 ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-20 10:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-23 15:14 ` Jon Turney
2015-11-23 18:54 ` Achim Gratz
2015-11-24 16:59 ` Jon Turney
2015-11-24 18:44 ` Achim Gratz
2015-11-26 10:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-26 18:12 ` Achim Gratz
2016-01-28 17:33 ` Jon Turney
2016-01-28 18:06 ` Achim Gratz
2016-01-28 18:41 ` [GOLDSTAR] " Corinna Vinschen
2016-01-29 16:37 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-01-28 18:42 ` Ken Brown
2016-01-28 20:06 ` Eric Blake
2016-01-28 20:17 ` Ken Brown
2016-01-28 20:22 ` Eric Blake
2016-01-29 14:22 ` Jon Turney
2016-01-29 14:53 ` Ken Brown
2016-01-29 19:17 ` Achim Gratz
2016-01-29 21:34 ` Ken Brown
2016-02-06 14:29 ` Ken Brown
2016-02-06 15:31 ` Jon Turney
2016-02-06 15:52 ` Jon Turney
2015-11-23 15:14 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2015-10-19 15:33 ` [GOLDSTAR] " Corinna Vinschen
2015-10-19 21:06 ` Andrew Schulman
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