Re: [RFC] incremental rebase

2014-12-08 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/7/2014 6:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 7 11:45, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: The _update-info-dir script just collects all info files from /usr/info and /usr/share/info and creates new "dir" using install-info. I was hoping that the method from _{inc}autorebase co

Re: [RFC] incremental rebase

2014-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 09:07, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/7/2014 6:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Dec 7 11:45, Achim Gratz wrote: > >>Corinna Vinschen writes: > >>>The _update-info-dir script just collects all info files from /usr/info > >>>and /usr/share/info and creates new "dir" using install-info. I wa

Re: [RFC] incremental rebase

2014-12-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > I'm not convinced that we need to worry so much about all these > details. What if we just check (based on timestamps of files in > /etc/setup/*.lst.gz) whether anything has been installed into > /usr/info or /usr/share/info since we last did this check. If so, > then just do

Re: [RFC] incremental rebase

2014-12-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > Fine with me. Except that we should probably get rid of /usr/info. As > far as we can trust the package search, there's no package installing > into /usr/info. That's right, everything should go into /usr/share/info these days. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAV

Re: [RFC] incremental rebase

2014-12-08 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/8/2014 11:48 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: I'm not convinced that we need to worry so much about all these details. What if we just check (based on timestamps of files in /etc/setup/*.lst.gz) whether anything has been installed into /usr/info or /usr/share/info since we last di

[PATCH] setup: fix handling of -X.Y releases

2014-12-08 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The attached patch should fix the reported issue with handling of packages with -X.Y release numbers. Yaakov 2014-12-08 Yaakov Selkowitz * package_source.cc (packagesource::set_canonical): Fix handling of package release number containing a period. Index: package_source.cc ==

Re: [HEADSUP] Base category

2014-12-08 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 6, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Also, can we automate this? If you’re suggesting an automatic promotion of package to Base, I’d argue for the opposite: automatic detection of dependency creep. I’ve got in mind the 2-3 times in my memory where Perl has crept into the mini

Re: cygport improvements: upload, fish, src_prep_fini_hook

2014-12-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > Here's what I have at the moment based on your branch as of a few weeks > > ago. However, with password-protected SSH keys, the password prompt > > isn't handled properly. Any ideas? > > Re password prompts: I see the problem. It's because I echo the lftp > script to stdout, and pipe it i