From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22822 invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2016 11:47:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22209 invoked by uid 89); 19 Sep 2016 11:47:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=cygwinapps, set-up, cygwin-apps, installeddb X-HELO: out2-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:47:15 +0000 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE422062B for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 07:47:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 19 Sep 2016 07:47:13 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-141-129-68.range86-141.btcentralplus.com [86.141.129.68]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 320EBF2988 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 07:47:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Line ending digits in /etc/setup/installed.db To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000001d2125a$fb1e4fb0$f15aef10$@bonhard.uklinux.net> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <591afcbb-fb79-a04c-8123-b2381bf3560c@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:10:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000001d2125a$fb1e4fb0$f15aef10$@bonhard.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00245.txt.bz2 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple