From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Line ending digits in /etc/setup/installed.db
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <591afcbb-fb79-a04c-8123-b2381bf3560c@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001d2125a$fb1e4fb0$f15aef10$@bonhard.uklinux.net>
On 19/09/2016 10:48, Fergus wrote:
> About 18% of the lines in my /etc/setup/installed.db end in " 1", the rest
> i.e. large majority end in " 0".
> Running setup does NOT attempt to re-install the packages identified by "
> 0".
> (Strange - that's exactly what I thought it would do ...)
> The set-up seems to possess full functionality.
> Can anybody explain / interpret the different endings?
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/setup.git;a=commitdiff;h=f6d6c600edffdb83a57ed13384e38a504fdc366b
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/setup.git;a=blob;f=package_db.cc;h=eb7ff6b5d1d15def09a1ebff837986e2e3ea3290;hb=HEAD#l159
Packages which aren't installed aren't recorded in installed.db (hence the name). This hasn't changed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-19 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-19 11:35 Fergus
2016-09-19 11:47 ` Andrey Repin
2016-09-19 14:10 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2016-09-19 18:03 ` Brian Inglis
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