On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:20:54PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >I'd like to remove all source package tracking from setup.exe. > >By this I mean: >* Do not log downloaded sources to installed.db >* skip parsing any existing source records from installed.db. >* Continue to allow sources downloading. > >At the same time I'd like to add a header record to installed.db - >something like >INSTALLED.DB VERSION 2 > >to allow versioned upgrades in the future. > >This will silently break any current scripts or tools like cygcheck that >parse installed.db - which is why I'm raising it here. OTOH it will >allow detection of further breakage.
I have no objections. The only thing I think will potentially break cygcheck is the INSTALLED.DB VERSION 2. If you just made that VERSION_2 (no spaces) it would be silently ignored. cgf
