setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode

setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode

[Ryan Johnson]

Hi all,

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 
tell that they're spurious and just choose not to install them, but it 
would get messy if the thing to be installed actually had dependencies...

Case in point: downloading gdb-7.3.50-1 requests dependencies 
"ca-certificates-1.78-1" and "libgcj11-4.5.3-3" -- neither of which 
strikes me as a likely candidate, and both of which are highly likely 
candidates given that I'm not at the latest versions of libgcj or 
libcurl4...

Anyone else seen this behavior?
Ryan


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Re: setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode

[Charles Wilson]

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...

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Chuck


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Re: setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode

[szgyg]

On 11/9/2011 11:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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
> tell that they're spurious and just choose not to install them, but it
> would get messy if the thing to be installed actually had dependencies...

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-05/msg00094.html

szgyg

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Re: setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode

[szgyg]

On 11/9/2011 11:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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
> tell that they're spurious and just choose not to install them, but it
> would get messy if the thing to be installed actually had dependencies...

[sorry]

There is a small setup.exe patch
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-05/msg00094.html

szgyg

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