setup
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 8 19:35:00 GMT 2015
On Jun 8 14:05, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 20:47 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun 8 13:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:49 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > ...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.
>
> I thought the reason was to (attempt to) assure proper ordering of
> postinstall scripts,
That's what I meant, just in so many different words ;)
> which (besides not working properly, as we discovered a while ago) we
> shouldn't need to rely on any more with the current setup.
That's where you lost me. Why is it NOT necessary anymore? Was there
some patch to setup I'm missing?
Corinna
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