From: "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" <sam.edge.cygwin@gmx.com>
To: "Cygwin (maillist)" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Dependency issues in setup.ini.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <505405e4-5a2f-8d6b-f012-404bd7d69009@gmx.com> (raw)
Hi all.
I've been developing a Python package that can interrogate and
manipulate local package caches (the directories where setupXXX.exe
keeps its downloads) and installation databases (from Cygwin
/etc/setup/installed.db files) with a mind to pruning, merging and
reporting in the spiript of Michael A. Chase's 'clean_setup' utility but
as a scriptable tool set rather than a stand-alone utility.
It's not production ready yet but it's already flagged up some issues.
For example we have lots of dependency loops in the 'requires' fields in
setup.ini - even to the point that some packages depend upon themselves!
And also we have some dependency omissions. For example, mintty doesn't
depend upon anything - it has no requires field. Surely, every binary
package should depend at least upon 'cygwin'?
Is this a known issue or should I report in more detail?
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next reply other threads:[~2017-09-29 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-29 22:39 Sam Edge (Cygwin) [this message]
2017-09-29 23:54 ` Steven Penny
2017-09-30 8:43 ` Sam Edge (Cygwin)
2017-09-30 9:05 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-09-30 2:34 ` Doug Henderson
2017-09-30 7:57 ` Steven Penny
2017-09-30 10:57 ` Andrey Repin
2017-09-30 11:35 ` Sam Edge
2017-09-30 11:51 ` Andrey Repin
2017-09-30 13:28 ` Sam Edge
2017-10-02 13:25 ` Jon Turney
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