From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Listing only manually installed package
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:20:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b400e131-e27d-3187-2d65-0a5a29cefbae@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200627.030404.1219230595825821536.yasu@utahime.org>
On 2020-06-26 12:04, Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote:
> From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
> Subject: Re: Listing only manually installed package
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:20:26 -0600
>
>> $ grep '\s1$' /etc/setup/installed.db # manual
>> $ grep '\s0$' /etc/setup/installed.db # auto
>>
>> $ awk '1 == $3' /etc/setup/installed.db # manual
>> $ awk '0 == $3' /etc/setup/installed.db # auto
>>
>> I can't remember what the pristine state of the Base category packages are,
>> I've messed around with the setup files so much for so long.
>
> I checked /etc/setup/installed.db on my 32bit and 64bit console but in
> each case all lines end with "0". Therefore,
>
> From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
> Subject: Re: Listing only manually installed package
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:15:21 +0300
>
>> AFAIK, there's no way to tell if a package was manually selected or not.
>> Cygwin's setup just don't store this information.
>
> As you say, unfortunately there seems to be no way to tell if a
> package was installed manually or automatically.
Just checked the setup sources, so unless there is a bug, you are running a
setup version over 5 years old, or not running Cygwin setup, user_picked is part
of the package metadata that is still read from and written to installed.db.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-26 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-26 16:34 Yasuhiro KIMURA
2020-06-26 17:15 ` Andrey Repin
2020-06-26 18:04 ` Yasuhiro KIMURA
2020-06-26 18:37 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-26 22:20 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2020-06-27 5:02 ` Cygwin
2020-06-27 17:35 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-27 8:50 ` Yasuhiro KIMURA
2020-06-28 14:12 ` Jon Turney
2020-06-28 18:47 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-27 7:40 ` Csaba Raduly
2020-06-26 17:20 ` Brian Inglis
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