Re: Making a package obsolete

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 5/15/2017 12:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> The relevant code is in pkg_pkg.cygpart around lines 149--163,
> especially this part:
>
>         elif (( pkg_count == 1 ))
>         then
>             pkg_contents="*"
>         else
>             pkg_contents=
>
> We get here if PKG_CONTENTS is unset or empty.  (There's actually no
> test to see if it's set but empty.)  In the situation under discussion,
> this results in pkg_contents="*" followed by a tar error.
>
> Yaakov, shouldn't the user be allowed to explicitly set PKG_CONTENTS
> empty and have cygport honor that, at least for obsolete packages?

The attached patch implements this, and not just for obsolete packages.

Ken

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