From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 129096 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2018 21:32:22 -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 129081 invoked by uid 89); 6 Mar 2018 21:32:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from Unknown (HELO mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.39) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:32:18 +0000 Received: from vsmx002.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.192]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7622BD9B276 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:32:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [91.47.63.82]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 509D2199C1B for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:32:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup-x86(_64) (v2.889) ... just a question References: Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:13:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (houder@xs4all.nl's message of "Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:39:47 +0100") Message-ID: <876068x54b.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00098.txt.bz2 Houder writes: > Is this the future of setup? Meaning, is it the intention that it may > be possible that installed.db refers to files that do not exist? The entries in that file have not been referring to actual file names for at least a decade if not longer. It's just been kept that way in order to stay compatible with any known and unknown consumers of that data. The only real meaning is the _version_ that setup knows to be installed (the packagename is the first part of the line and just repeated for the version part that still looks liek a filename). For setup itself, the file name to be installed doesn't need to match anything at all (it wouldn't even need a .tar.xz suffix to fihgure out the file type), but there's a naming convention that gets followed. It's mostly so that one can look at the install log and understand what has been installed or more easily find a file to manually install. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves -- 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