setup -P ..,xinit,.. didn't install twm even though xinit requires twm

setup -P ..,xinit,.. didn't install twm even though xinit requires twm

[Fergus]

Strange recent experience:
I made a fresh installation of Cygwin, intending to mimick exactly previous
installations, using the command
setup -P <several>,xinit,<several more>
and then compared the new installation with previous ones.
Not quite an exact match: the new installation lacked several entries of the
form
/bin/cyg*dll, /etc/peremove/*.done, /etc/setup/*gz
and others which I won't bother detailing here; but in particular the new
installation is missing ALL of
the executable /bin/twm.exe
the file /etc/setup/twm.lst.gz
the directory /usr/share/X11/twm
the directory /usr/share/doc/twm
the directory/usr/share/man/man1/twm.1.gz
and yet: in setup.ini it appears that
@ xinit
requires: .. twm ..
So how is it that twm has been "missed" in the new installation?
(I am guessing / hoping that when this conundrum is solved and twm recovered
- if that is what the solution entails - then the other missing * files
might also be recovered.)
Thank you!
Fergus


   




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Re: setup -P ..,xinit,.. didn't install twm even though xinit requires twm

[Achim Gratz]

Fergus writes:
> and yet: in setup.ini it appears that
> @ xinit
> requires: .. twm ..
> So how is it that twm has been "missed" in the new installation?

The current package xinit no longer requires twm and so it doesn't get
installed.  For backwards compatibility reasons the "requires:" line is
still kept as the union of the requirements of all installable versions.
The actual requirements of the package version you're trying to install
are on the "depends2:" line.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: setup -P ..,xinit,.. didn't install twm even though xinit requires twm

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-10-17 12:01, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Fergus writes:
>> and yet: in setup.ini it appears that
>> @ xinit
>> requires: .. twm ..
>> So how is it that twm has been "missed" in the new installation?
> 
> The current package xinit no longer requires twm and so it doesn't get
> installed.  For backwards compatibility reasons the "requires:" line is
> still kept as the union of the requirements of all installable versions.
> The actual requirements of the package version you're trying to install
> are on the "depends2:" line.

And that shows:

@ xinit
sdesc: "X.Org X server launcher"
ldesc: "This package contains programs used to start the X Window System
server and a first client program in environments that use multiple window
systems."
category: X11
requires: adwaita-themes bash coreutils cygutils cygwin dbus-x11 libX11_6 run
sed setxkbmap twm util-linux xauth xdg-user-dirs xmodmap xorg-server xrdb xterm
xwin-xdg-menu
version: 1.4.1-1
install: x86_64/release/xinit/xinit-1.4.1-1.tar.xz 57424
2fb74ebda5eebe9ffb8a80c65a242eca3bd36b41975c2bbfb8f3a3974e681eddf925b77d012b9e7fa5954e7b5fa925e1416bd8e23bce449486d96004574ca40a
source: x86_64/release/xinit/xinit-1.4.1-1-src.tar.xz 200276
4f60f26ba319e75829266d6f7a5cff92a32125b303543387e5c2747c9ae9557a713c565204565b6f44346ac1174a799ed3bf30fa8be0d3b0606e9610d3de1680
depends2: adwaita-themes, bash, coreutils, cygutils, cygwin, dbus-x11, libX11_6,
run, sed, setxkbmap, util-linux, xauth, xdg-user-dirs, xmodmap, xorg-server,
xrdb, xterm, xwin-xdg-menu
[prev]
version: 1.3.4-12
install: x86_64/release/xinit/xinit-1.3.4-12.tar.xz 55008
8508df8095dfa44fdfd32c33dc4ce23a14d751da8a8bab20a4f58fb02c8aa47d729070793bbc5ff47aba856dff15f14bc6f72f0bcb2f4221a3d4bc29c1e93cfa
source: x86_64/release/xinit/xinit-1.3.4-12-src.tar.xz 189828
2e2cbfb0085d94d100f64cadf0c3fed1539d6db6f816a04118e55fd2d0177a71d025ba53dfff38f744ed74a4ae122931adab4caf56e86160cc57b855af3c973f
depends2: adwaita-themes, bash, coreutils, cygutils, cygwin, dbus-x11, libX11_6,
run, sed, setxkbmap, twm, util-linux, xauth, xdg-user-dirs, xmodmap,
xorg-server, xrdb, xterm, xwin-xdg-menu
[prev]
version: 1.3.4-14
install: x86_64/release/xinit/xinit-1.3.4-14.tar.xz 55092
230276c56d6564ce91f4f6c22cd647fbe7bc2f622269171150d5ce9ca1494f05dc90ee6908f4d20198a148d18feeea1f63ba09bd2d1110f334e1a85dccdfda2c
source: x86_64/release/xinit/xinit-1.3.4-14-src.tar.xz 190196
2907208422de2252eaf84864a93096f4fd4ea0533bf58073c7cf131dd3cffde3cfa3ccf2d08287dfef2cea90fa16a33f6346b76ea4128301253704ef5f8ce6df
depends2: adwaita-themes, bash, coreutils, cygutils, cygwin, dbus-x11, libX11_6,
run, sed, setxkbmap, twm, util-linux, xauth, xdg-user-dirs, xmodmap,
xorg-server, xrdb, xterm, xwin-xdg-menu

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