* Cygwin install is broken v-a-vis dependencies
@ 2017-04-03 21:48 dmh
2017-04-03 21:54 ` Dan Kegel
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From: dmh @ 2017-04-03 21:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Whenever I go to install a package, I get a list
of 50 other packages that it claims need to be installed.
I know that list is both bogus and contains items I explicitly
need to not oinstall (e.g. cmake). What is worse, when I want to
uninstall a package, it gives me that ]same list plus it wants
to install the package I am trying ot uninstall. This just broken.
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* Re: Cygwin install is broken v-a-vis dependencies
2017-04-03 21:48 Cygwin install is broken v-a-vis dependencies dmh
@ 2017-04-03 21:54 ` Dan Kegel
2017-04-04 0:01 ` Marco Atzeri
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From: Dan Kegel @ 2017-04-03 21:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
That probably just means there have been updates since
last time you installed, and it's trying to update things
you installed before (or that get installed by default).
Try running setup, don't change anything, and let it finish.
That will grab all the updates you need. After that, it'll
behave the way you expect.
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:47 PM, dmh@ucar.edu <dmh@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Whenever I go to install a package, I get a list
> of 50 other packages that it claims need to be installed.
> I know that list is both bogus and contains items I explicitly
> need to not oinstall (e.g. cmake). What is worse, when I want to
> uninstall a package, it gives me that ]same list plus it wants
> to install the package I am trying ot uninstall. This just broken.
>
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* Re: Cygwin install is broken v-a-vis dependencies
2017-04-03 21:54 ` Dan Kegel
@ 2017-04-04 0:01 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-04-04 12:32 ` cyg Simple
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From: Marco Atzeri @ 2017-04-04 0:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 03/04/2017 23:54, Dan Kegel wrote:
Dan,
No TOP post here please
> That probably just means there have been updates since
> last time you installed, and it's trying to update things
> you installed before (or that get installed by default).
>
> Try running setup, don't change anything, and let it finish.
> That will grab all the updates you need. After that, it'll
> behave the way you expect.
>
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:47 PM, dmh@ucar.edu <dmh@ucar.edu> wrote:
>> Whenever I go to install a package, I get a list
>> of 50 other packages that it claims need to be installed.
>> I know that list is both bogus and contains items I explicitly
>> need to not oinstall (e.g. cmake). What is worse, when I want to
>> uninstall a package, it gives me that ]same list plus it wants
>> to install the package I am trying ot uninstall.
>> This just broken.
That is not very descriptive.
As Dan explained the default behavior of cygwin setup is to update
already installed packages and their dependencies.
For what I see from "setup.ini", almost nothing requires
cmake, except development packages related to cmake,
so there is a 99.99% chance that you have it already installed.
You can check it with "cygcheck -c cmake"
You can change the default behavior of setup and decide,
at your own risk, to not update the packages selecting
"Keep" instead of "Current" on the left upper side
of the "Select Packages" view.
Regards
Marco
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* Re: Cygwin install is broken v-a-vis dependencies
2017-04-04 0:01 ` Marco Atzeri
@ 2017-04-04 12:32 ` cyg Simple
2017-04-04 12:45 ` Henry S. Thompson
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From: cyg Simple @ 2017-04-04 12:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 4/3/2017 8:01 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 03/04/2017 23:54, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> Dan,
> No TOP post here please
>
>> That probably just means there have been updates since
>> last time you installed, and it's trying to update things
>> you installed before (or that get installed by default).
>>
>> Try running setup, don't change anything, and let it finish.
>> That will grab all the updates you need. After that, it'll
>> behave the way you expect.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:47 PM, dmh@ucar.edu <dmh@ucar.edu> wrote:
>>> Whenever I go to install a package, I get a list
>>> of 50 other packages that it claims need to be installed.
>>> I know that list is both bogus and contains items I explicitly
>>> need to not oinstall (e.g. cmake). What is worse, when I want to
>>> uninstall a package, it gives me that ]same list plus it wants
>>> to install the package I am trying ot uninstall.
>
>>> This just broken.
>
> That is not very descriptive.
>
> As Dan explained the default behavior of cygwin setup is to update
> already installed packages and their dependencies.
>
Maybe so but even I find that this is cumbersome. I would prefer a
choice upfront just after the download and parsing of setup.ini if I
want to update previously installed items. I haven't mentioned it
because I don't have time to help develop that.
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* Re: Cygwin install is broken v-a-vis dependencies
2017-04-04 12:32 ` cyg Simple
@ 2017-04-04 12:45 ` Henry S. Thompson
2017-04-04 13:13 ` Marco Atzeri
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From: Henry S. Thompson @ 2017-04-04 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
cyg Simple writes:
> On 4/3/2017 8:01 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>
>> As Dan explained the default behavior of cygwin setup is to update
>> already installed packages and their dependencies.
>
> Maybe so but even I find that this is cumbersome. I would prefer a
> choice upfront just after the download and parsing of setup.ini if I
> want to update previously installed items. I haven't mentioned it
> because I don't have time to help develop that.
Also, my recent experience was that if I toggled the updated package
that was causing the trouble to 'Keep', even though _it_ didn't show up
in the download list, the (large) dependencies offering _did_ still turn
up.
If you haven't updated recently, and you have mediainfo-gui 0.7.91-1 or
earlier installed, you can reproduce. You should be offered
mediainfo-gui 0.7.93-1. Even if you switch it (and libmediainfo
and mediainfo to be sure) to Keep and proceed, you will be hit with a
large list of dependencies.
ht
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* Re: Cygwin install is broken v-a-vis dependencies
2017-04-04 12:45 ` Henry S. Thompson
@ 2017-04-04 13:13 ` Marco Atzeri
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From: Marco Atzeri @ 2017-04-04 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 04/04/2017 14:45, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> cyg Simple writes:
>
>> On 4/3/2017 8:01 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>>
>>> As Dan explained the default behavior of cygwin setup is to update
>>> already installed packages and their dependencies.
>>
>> Maybe so but even I find that this is cumbersome. I would prefer a
>> choice upfront just after the download and parsing of setup.ini if I
>> want to update previously installed items. I haven't mentioned it
>> because I don't have time to help develop that.
>
> Also, my recent experience was that if I toggled the updated package
> that was causing the trouble to 'Keep', even though _it_ didn't show up
> in the download list, the (large) dependencies offering _did_ still turn
> up.
>
> If you haven't updated recently, and you have mediainfo-gui 0.7.91-1 or
> earlier installed, you can reproduce. You should be offered
> mediainfo-gui 0.7.93-1. Even if you switch it (and libmediainfo
> and mediainfo to be sure) to Keep and proceed, you will be hit with a
> large list of dependencies.
The current setup handle a single set of dependency for all revision of
a package (current, previous, test)
It was started a step to create the raw data for version dependency
data, but it is not yet there for all packages and setup will require a
deep modification
https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI
> ht
>
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