* What does mean 'obsolete' category?
@ 2011-11-05 23:37 Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-11-06 18:38 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
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From: Oleksandr Gavenko @ 2011-11-05 23:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Search:
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=xorg-x11-xwin
take:
xorg-x11-xwin/xorg-x11-xwin-7.4-1 Obsolete package
From setup.ini:
@ xorg-x11-xwin
sdesc: "Obsolete package"
ldesc: "Obsolete package"
category: _obsolete
That mean 'obsolete' for package?
I search for docs in:
Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide
Cygwin User's Guide
http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup-head.ini.html
but does not found any relevant docs for 'obsolete' keyword.
Do this mean that package depricated and I need avoid its uses?
Or it is for a long time does not updated and can have known bugs?
I will be glad if docs updated with appropriate texts.
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* RE: What does mean 'obsolete' category?
2011-11-05 23:37 What does mean 'obsolete' category? Oleksandr Gavenko
@ 2011-11-06 18:38 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
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From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] @ 2011-11-06 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin, 'Oleksandr Gavenko'
Oleksandr Gavenko sent the following at Saturday, November 05, 2011 7:37 PM
>Search:
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=xorg-x11-xwin
>
>take:
> xorg-x11-xwin/xorg-x11-xwin-7.4-1 Obsolete package
>
From setup.ini:
> @ xorg-x11-xwin
> sdesc: "Obsolete package"
> ldesc: "Obsolete package"
> category: _obsolete
>
>That mean 'obsolete' for package?
>
>I search for docs in:
> Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide
> Cygwin User's Guide
> http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup-head.ini.html
>
>but does not found any relevant docs for 'obsolete' keyword.
>
>Do this mean that package deprecated and I need avoid its uses?
>
>Or it is for a long time does not updated and can have known bugs?
>
>I will be glad if docs updated with appropriate texts.
They are how obsolete packages are removed and replaced by their successors.
Lets look at the setup.ini entry for ash.
@ ash
sdesc: "Replaced by dash"
ldesc: "OBSOLETE PKG: replaced by dash"
category: _obsolete
requires: dash cygwin
version: 20040127-5
install: release/ash/ash-20040127-5.tar.bz2 46 c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054
source: release/ash/ash-20040127-5-src.tar.bz2 46 c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054
[prev]
version: 20040127-4
install: release/ash/ash-20040127-4.tar.bz2 47178 26b04e64b710f4e9592258446920a992
source: release/ash/ash-20040127-4-src.tar.bz2 140516 7fa68e8ed663ac77b484079aab026ed8
Note that both the install and source tarballs are effectively empty - only 46 bytes.
When setup updates, it first removes the previous version, here ash-20040127-4.tar.bz2,
before trying to install the non-existent contents of ash-20040127-5.tar.bz2. The
requires line then tells setup to install dash, the replacement of ash.
I could be wrong about this, but it seems to me that one other thing that "_obsolete"
does is to move the directory of the package in setup.exe's local package cache to be
a subdirectory of .../release/_obsolete/.
So the category _obsolete means "do not install this" and "you cannot use this
because it is not here", which is a bit stronger than "deprecated" and "avoid".
I hope that helps. (I also hope that that was correct. :-) )
- Barry
Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
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