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From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84d5c7f8-edab-23b3-5594-1b1d164691d7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87376xo3ye.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

On 10/5/2017 2:16 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Andrew Schulman writes:
>> This happened because 4.8.0-1 turns out to be broken, and later versions won't
>> build in Cygwin yet. So I had to promote 4.7.8-1 to test. Assuming it's okay,
>> shortly I want to promote it to current and dump 4.8.0-1, leaving
>>
>> prev: 4.7.7-1
>> curr: 4.7.8-1
> 
> Again, that won't automatically install 4.7.8 for anyone who already
> upgraded to 4.8.0 (unless the --force-current switch is given).
> 

This won't solve the current issue but shouldn't --force-current be the
default?  Maybe could be suggested in the hint file with another line
similar to:

force_curr: true

or

force: 4.7.8-1

-- 
cyg Simple

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-03 19:51 Jon Turney
2017-10-03 20:01 ` Andrew Schulman
2017-10-03 20:25   ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-05 12:24   ` Jon Turney
2017-10-05 14:23     ` Andrew Schulman
2017-10-05 16:57       ` Ken Brown
2017-10-05 19:50         ` Andrew Schulman
2017-10-07  7:52           ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-09 19:33             ` Andrew Schulman
2017-10-05 18:16       ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-05 19:33         ` cyg Simple [this message]
2017-10-05 18:14     ` Achim Gratz
2017-11-01 19:58 ` Yaakov Selkowitz

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