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From: Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Blocking a base package from installing
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57F6966E.4050303@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tu1qtes.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

Achim Gratz wrote:
> Chris Sutcliffe writes:
>> I'm using a self compiled vim, so I uninstalled vim-minimal.  Every
>> time I run setup to get the latest updates, setup attempts to
>> reinstall vim-minimal - is there a way to make setup ignore
>> vim-minimal?
> 
> Yes, at least two.
> 
> 1. Build a proper package and give it a higher version number than
> Cygwin's own Vim.  
> 
> 2. Fake the installation of vim-minimal in /etc/setup/installed.db and
> give that fake installation some high version number.
---
Both of which are "lying" to the package manager, to get it to
NOT install an inferior (from the standpoint of not containing
the user-desired modifications/features) package.  It should
be possible to "LOCK" a package (base or not), to prevent it from
being removed/updated/installed or changed by setup, no?  


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-06 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-06 17:15 Chris Sutcliffe
2016-10-06 17:28 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2016-10-06 17:37 ` Achim Gratz
2016-10-06 18:30   ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2016-10-06 18:35     ` Eric Blake
2016-10-06 19:15     ` Achim Gratz
2016-10-07  0:16       ` Linda Walsh
2016-10-07 11:04         ` Andrey Repin
2016-10-07 22:40           ` intelligent following of directions, or following them by rote Linda Walsh
2016-10-08 18:45             ` Brian Inglis
2016-10-09  6:56               ` Linda Walsh
2016-10-09  4:35             ` Erik Soderquist
2016-10-09  8:55               ` Linda Walsh
2016-10-07 22:04         ` Blocking a base package from installing Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2016-10-08 14:45           ` Linda Walsh
2016-10-06 19:02 ` Andrey Repin

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