Setup-x86(_64) (v2.889) ... just a question (CORRECTION)

[Houder]

On 2018-03-06 14:39, Houder wrote:
> L.S.,
> 
> Just a question, meaning it may have been discussed in cygwin-apps,
> but I have been reading that list for quite a while now.
[snip]

I should have added:

... next I decided to install the previous versions of both cscope and
liblz4_1.

> However to my surprise /etc/setup/installed.db now lists:
> 
> 64-@@ grep -e cscope -e lz4 /drv/e/Cygwin64-test/etc/setup/installed.db
> cscope cscope-15.8a-2.tar.bz2 1 <==== artifical version number
> liblz4_1 liblz4_1-1.7.5-0.tar.bz2 0 <==== ditto
> 
> These files do NOT exist. The file names were "artificially crafted".
> 
> The files that do exist, are:
> 
> 64-@@ ls -l release/cscope release/lz4/liblz4_1
> release/cscope:
> total 700
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Henri None 381409 Mar  6 13:18 cscope-15.8.0.1-2.tar.bz2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Henri None 330264 Mar  6 13:16 cscope-15.8b-1.tar.xz
> 
> release/lz4/liblz4_1:
> total 52
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Henri None 30408 Mar  6 12:37 liblz4_1-1.7.5-1.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Henri None 17924 Mar  6 11:15 liblz4_1-131-1.tar.xz
> 
> Is this the future of setup? Meaning, is it the intention that it may
> be possible that installed.db refers to files that do not exist?
> 
> Henri
> 
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