From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBB0593.2050105@cwilson.fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EBB0211.1060508@cs.utoronto.ca>
On 11/9/2011 5:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> There's a somewhat annoying behavior in setup.exe when installing
> packages in 'keep' mode: all dependencies selected by things which would
> have been installed in 'Curr' mode still try to download. Often I can
It's a setup.hint "bug". While setup.exe does support per-version
requires: statements, most setup.hints don't use that, and instead
specify "global" requirements.
So, bob uploads the new package "foo" which now requires libbar, and he
simply modifies the (global) requirements to add libbar. When you try
to "keep" the old foo, setup.exe still notices that the requirements now
include libbar, and you don't have it installed, so...
--
Chuck
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-09 22:43 Ryan Johnson
2011-11-09 22:58 ` Charles Wilson [this message]
2011-11-10 17:47 ` szgyg
2011-11-10 17:50 ` szgyg
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