RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages with dependencies
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:16 AM > To: Robert Collins > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages > with dependencies > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:55:11PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:30 PM > >> > >> Dependencies work for installing. The behavior I noticed > >> when uninstalling is that dependencies are ignored. I'm > >> guessing that setup.exe was designed that way because there > >> isn't really a good way to handle dependencies when uninstalling. > > > >Yeah. On uninstalling we need some user interaction, and the chooser > >isn't quite there to do that cleanly (yet). > > Did you see the apparent off-by-one problem in uninstalling, Robert? Seen it reported twice... should get to it this weekend. I'm not going to comment publicly until I review the code. Rob
RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 setup.exe packages with dependencies
> -Original Message- > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:30 PM > > Dependencies work for installing. The behavior I noticed > when uninstalling is that dependencies are ignored. I'm > guessing that setup.exe was designed that way because there > isn't really a good way to handle dependencies when uninstalling. Yeah. On uninstalling we need some user interaction, and the chooser isn't quite there to do that cleanly (yet). Rob
Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages with dependencies
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:30:22AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
>2) upset took the list of requirements from XFree86-base/setup.hint and put
>them in quotes ("cygwin ...") when it created setup.ini. upset didn't do
>this for any other packages and the Cygwin setup.ini doesn't have quotes
>around dependency lists, so I guess that the quotes were peculiar to this
>version of upset, perhaps combined with a list of dependencies that is
>longer than one line. I removed the quotes from the 'requires' list from
>XFree86-base and all is now well.
That version of upset is an obsolete, buggy version. That's why I removed
it.
cgf
