Re: [PATCH setup 00/10] Various setup patches

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>]

Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> People tend to not re-install their whole set of packages just because
>> some new version of setup is announced,
>
> Uhm?  If you download a new setup, but then don't update your packages,
> why did you download the latest setup at all?  If you don't run this
> new setup, you won't get new-style files.

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.

>> so I'm going to assume that for
>> quite some time a mix of old and new .lst files (for instance) exists on
>> the majority of installations and whatever we do (in cygcheck, say)
>> needs to work with that.
>
> 1. Provide new versions of cygwin, cygcheck-dep and _autorebase
> 2. time passes (2 weeks or so)
> 3. Provide a new version of setup

That doesn't cut it, unless you want to require the whole distribution
to be rebuilt and everything re-installed with that change.  Cygwin10
1609 or something like that?  :-)


Regards,
Achim.
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