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RE: Setup ready #2




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov@syntrex.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 2:50 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: CygWin-Apps
> Subject: Re: Setup ready #2
> 
> 
> Friday, March 15, 2002, 2:01:22 PM, you wrote:
> 
> RC> Ok, Setup200202 now
> 
> RC> * and the new bin, src tickbox arrangement is in place.
> 
> Ok, another thing... I don't really know if this is a bug or 
> feature, but thought it may be worth to share...
> 
> All the setup-200202 versions I have locally - that is 
> 20020225, 20020315 and a custom build from the end of 
> February, won't write a /etc/setup/package_name-src.lst.gz 
> when installing the source for a package. 

Correct. Tracking source packages was deprecated and removed some time
back. I don't think the current released setup tracks it either. 

There were some long discussions (with a lot of rabbit holes) about
source package management around the time when this happened.

Rob


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