setup
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 8 18:47:00 GMT 2015
On Jun 8 13:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:49 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun 8 14:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Jun 3 19:11, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > > > Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> > > > > Anyone looking at the sources would be tainted thereby. Because we are
> > > > > concerned about the licensing of upset, AFAICS we are going to have to
> > > > > clean-room reverse-engineer this.
> > > >
> > > > So what exactly does upset that genini doesn't when it comes to
> > > > generating setup.ini and what other functions does it do in the
> > > > maintenance of the download area (which I assume is the part where it
> > > > gets hairy)?
> > >
> > > Basically upset generates setup.ini and setup.bz2 files and a makefile
> > > signs the files. But additionally upset also creates the data for the
> > > package search and it does the uploading from the package staging area.
> >
> > ...it also handles the "autodep" and "incver_ifdep" stuff in setup.hint.
> >
> > "autodep" (and "noautodep") seems to have a bug, though, as we discussed
> > a while back. It seems to miss adding some of the required dependencies.
>
> Do we really need autodep anymore?
IDK. autodep is only used to create the auto-dependency to the "cygwin"
package, except for the two "noautodep" packages _update-info-dir and
_autorebase. The reason, afair, was to make sure the dependency chain
created by setup when (un-)installing in the right order makes sense.
If you think we don't need it anymore, please explain.
Corinna
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