On Aug 20 10:39, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:57:51AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 19 22:46, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:48:44PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > >> >Can we special-case upset not to add _update-info-dir to the Cygwin > >> >package? > >> > >> I'm not a big fan of special casing and in this case I don't have to. > >> I just added a "noautodep: _update_info_dir" to cygwin's setup.hint. > > > >Cool. I'm curious how this changes the dependency order. > > > >> But we'll still get a dependency loop with base-passwd. I have removed > >> that dependency in release. It looks like this isn't needed in > >> release-2. > > > >I removed all dependencies from release-2/base-passwd except for > >base-cygwin a couple of days ago. Hopefully we get to the point > >where the base packages' postinstalls run first. > > Keeping a base-dependency in cygwin would make setup want to run base-* > before cygwin, though. Cygwin doesn't *really* depend on these packages > (it doesn't need them to run) so I don't think they should be a > dependency.
That's the whole idea. Cygwin itself has no postinstall scripts, but the base-* scripts should run first. That's why the dependencies make sense. What else packages should depend on the base-* packages to accomplish this? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
