From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Line ending digits in /etc/setup/installed.db
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21adb4b0-78d9-105a-7b6f-a6cabc20362d@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <591afcbb-fb79-a04c-8123-b2381bf3560c@dronecode.org.uk>
On 2016-09-19 05:47, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 19/09/2016 10:48, Fergus wrote:
>> About 18% of the lines in my /etc/setup/installed.db end in " 1",
>> the rest i.e. large majority end in " 0". Running setup does NOT
>> attempt to re-install the packages identified by " 0". (Strange -
>> that's exactly what I thought it would do ...) The set-up seems to
>> possess full functionality. Can anybody explain / interpret the
>> different endings?
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/setup.git;a=commitdiff;
> h=f6d6c600edffdb83a57ed13384e38a504fdc366b
>https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/setup.git;a=blob;f=package_db.cc;
> h=eb7ff6b5d1d15def09a1ebff837986e2e3ea3290;hb=HEAD#l159
For the code challenged 0 means dependencies of packages you picked flagged by 1.
> Packages which aren't installed aren't recorded in installed.db
> (hence the name). This hasn't changed.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-19 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-19 11:35 Fergus
2016-09-19 11:47 ` Andrey Repin
2016-09-19 14:10 ` Jon Turney
2016-09-19 18:03 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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