From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3213 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2011 18:38:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 3201 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Nov 2011 18:38:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nihxway4out.hub.nih.gov (HELO nihxway4out.hub.nih.gov) (128.231.90.112) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:37:51 +0000 X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtwAAAXTtk6cKEcV/2dsb2JhbABDmhuOVIEggQWBcgEBAQQSKE8CAQgNJwIQHxMlAQEEARoah2iZGJo7iEhjBIgLhCqNPIw6 Received: from unknown (HELO NIHHT02.nih.gov) ([156.40.71.21]) by nihxway4out.hub.nih.gov with ESMTP; 06 Nov 2011 13:37:50 -0500 Received: from NIHMLBX02.nih.gov ([156.40.71.32]) by NIHHT02.nih.gov ([156.40.71.21]) with mapi; Sun, 6 Nov 2011 13:37:50 -0500 From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" , 'Oleksandr Gavenko' Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:38:00 -0000 Subject: RE: What does mean 'obsolete' category? Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A39C92BB5@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> References: <87lirujg4q.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87lirujg4q.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00110.txt.bz2 Oleksandr Gavenko sent the following at Saturday, November 05, 2011 7:37 PM >Search: > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=3Dxorg-x11-xwin > >take: > xorg-x11-xwin/xorg-x11-xwin-7.4-1 Obsolete package > >From setup.ini: > @ xorg-x11-xwin > sdesc: "Obsolete package" > ldesc: "Obsolete package" > category: _obsolete > >That mean 'obsolete' for package? > >I search for docs in: > Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide > Cygwin User's Guide > http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup-head.ini.html > >but does not found any relevant docs for 'obsolete' keyword. > >Do this mean that package deprecated and I need avoid its uses? > >Or it is for a long time does not updated and can have known bugs? > >I will be glad if docs updated with appropriate texts. They are how obsolete packages are removed and replaced by their successors. Lets look at the setup.ini entry for ash. @ ash sdesc: "Replaced by dash" ldesc: "OBSOLETE PKG: replaced by dash" category: _obsolete requires: dash cygwin version: 20040127-5 install: release/ash/ash-20040127-5.tar.bz2 46 c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a8= 7054 source: release/ash/ash-20040127-5-src.tar.bz2 46 c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a= 7a87054 [prev] version: 20040127-4 install: release/ash/ash-20040127-4.tar.bz2 47178 26b04e64b710f4e9592258446= 920a992 source: release/ash/ash-20040127-4-src.tar.bz2 140516 7fa68e8ed663ac77b4840= 79aab026ed8 Note that both the install and source tarballs are effectively empty - only= 46 bytes. When setup updates, it first removes the previous version, here ash-2004012= 7-4.tar.bz2, before trying to install the non-existent contents of ash-20040127-5.tar.bz= 2. The requires line then tells setup to install dash, the replacement of ash. I could be wrong about this, but it seems to me that one other thing that "= _obsolete" does is to move the directory of the package in setup.exe's local package c= ache to be a subdirectory of .../release/_obsolete/. So the category _obsolete means "do not install this" and "you cannot use t= his because it is not here", which is a bit stronger than "deprecated" and "avo= id". I hope that helps. (I also hope that that was correct. :-) ) - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple