From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 102129 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2019 21:16:04 -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 101846 invoked by uid 89); 3 Dec 2019 21:15:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=outstanding, interactive X-HELO: NAM03-DM3-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com Received: from mail-eopbgr800139.outbound.protection.outlook.com (HELO NAM03-DM3-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com) (40.107.80.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:15:24 +0000 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; s=arcselector9901; d=microsoft.com; cv=none; b=D3HLz//y3zC9HkN+MnlAlUsEVnKooqWghKjSoKS3fw6Gb+TTjRTEZyG2nFrdK5M701/r+OZSMuz9TsQNAdBLeVh5rIUFO2YQQJKrbSuEJGd4aMG4Fp5fQ0DDFI3mgkatr4xuZ7+MYFP3bekyMxxPv3vcc7B25mn/9yBFPx+1EevyFJ2UNvyVL7Vedh9FRUUcIh74DjlVHIXuifgKTZuKv/t0DX1DNBVPd+BnLx7NyoVdTyuYYEH0OIaHX2YlPY/ezPXCn8pxIJZfh1pkEzPzK1/TMwtFDcrubL61Zoh/J4zOerL08Rf8r6OpDqxOfsxiiLRbdW07kbpLW2naUf/gfg== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=microsoft.com; s=arcselector9901; h=From:Date:Subject:Message-ID:Content-Type:MIME-Version:X-MS-Exchange-SenderADCheck; bh=bQfFIRlii9mES9CaevuwBkKV+3zP1u78bdzt37hDiBs=; b=R/iaWUSpNUcmTS1Jye8RK7Yd6hqDI/DYoHhlIBxy/smBNnlVxKpgsravArS46quH/glj1DmgPevKYStPC70DEpALy33XDebB/gOgYYAwYDJ9Ns+tjEUx3tpykpAWFIQfykJlbwXBaFhp56d75RERnU53/ak0WHFkN82eDozsMJMGW0Ozae3EzQAfOnKOBIYGx960Y+xnDkdbOnSuio26IwY7Y1dDq/fYYQ6M07Cs68FoG0BFGyLM6YIozGCdLicNq55MJ8IJxsaonh6db1GGmibGJS2sPQX7q1OrGpDxali6YuUd8AnuE1vVZEN3UijgOYaKg+jLQ5XxFknYH5in5A== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.microsoft.com 1; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cornell.edu; dmarc=pass action=none header.from=cornell.edu; dkim=pass header.d=cornell.edu; arc=none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cornell.edu; s=selector2; h=From:Date:Subject:Message-ID:Content-Type:MIME-Version:X-MS-Exchange-SenderADCheck; bh=bQfFIRlii9mES9CaevuwBkKV+3zP1u78bdzt37hDiBs=; b=D8ZoScAWJhx5daCpD6Q8u1HyzbGDYE7ab0UeoieyBAsWxyHoQ593ANzsTaci/cFcBKW1JgWYS8cEa4TfyvKPBA1w9HEsGDTUJ768ozu/sNXINRmKXqMvQV/+NPMTEhhdinf7SllkVBB6iELNQoPxfhMYitKCTfCTnxjpRWcfw4Q= Received: from DM6PR04MB5738.namprd04.prod.outlook.com (20.179.51.81) by DM6PR04MB3898.namprd04.prod.outlook.com (20.176.90.146) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.20.2495.22; Tue, 3 Dec 2019 21:15:15 +0000 Received: from DM6PR04MB5738.namprd04.prod.outlook.com ([fe80::f894:edec:b80c:d524]) by DM6PR04MB5738.namprd04.prod.outlook.com ([fe80::f894:edec:b80c:d524%3]) with mapi id 15.20.2495.014; Tue, 3 Dec 2019 21:15:15 +0000 From: Ken Brown To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 00/11] Improve handling of specifying an obsolete package to be installed on the command line Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20190801160519.32745-1-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> <67c53414-03eb-fdae-250f-0a67b790e53b@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=kbrown@cornell.edu; x-ms-oob-tlc-oobclassifiers: OLM:10000; received-spf: None (protection.outlook.com: cornell.edu does not designate permitted sender hosts) x-ms-exchange-senderadcheck: 1 x-ms-exchange-transport-forked: True Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-mailboxtype: HOSTED X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-userprincipalname: hHOTarskqxI5JNYXFXkwCqYnSgXoNBRlLQbzKB3+OqqEWh97Ha0Lki6n0khvTz1FziA17VtnMeE/Mv0UrSKZIw== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 On 12/3/2019 3:44 PM, Jon Turney wrote: > On 01/12/2019 19:31, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 8/1/2019 12:05 PM, Jon Turney wrote: >>> e.g. setup -q -g -P python3-lxml (which used to do something useful) >>> currently gets you an (empty) python3-lxml package, which will be repla= ced >>> by python36-lxml (which obsoletes it) on the next setup run. After this >>> change, python36-lxml is installed instead. >>> >>> See also the dicusssion at >>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-10/msg00092.html et seq. (where I >>> come to the (incorrect) conclusion that since we don't need this for >>> interactive use, it's not needed) >>> > [...] >> >> Since you don't seem to have gotten any feedback on this patch series, I= just >> want to let you know that I've been running setup.exe with these patches= for a >> couple months, and I haven't seen any regressions.=A0 (But I haven't don= e any >> systematic testing or review.) >=20 > Thanks very much for giving these a try. >=20 > I was recently reminded of these patches and thinking of doing a setup re= lease=20 > to include them.=A0 Are there any other outstanding patches you are aware= of? None that I know of. Ken