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Re: cygport no longer removes "cygwin" from the dependency list
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 18:16:27 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygport no longer removes "cygwin" from the dependency list
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On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 14:33 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> Now that we've moved from cygwin-1.7.x to cygwin-2.x.y, line 681 of
> pkg_pkg.cygpart no longer filters out "cygwin". Presumably you just
> want to replace "cygwin-1" by "cygwin-2", unless there's a reason to
> allow for the possibility that maintainers are building without having
> the latest version of cygwin installed.
Good catch. OTOH, we were only skipping the 'cygwin' dep in setup.hint
because of an issue with deptree ordering of postinstall scripts. Given
the recent changes to postinstall handling in setup, is there any reason
we can't just stop ignoring the cygwin dep?
--
Yaakov