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Re: [Cron cd /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin; /sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset -C -u setup.ini; /usr/local/bin/upx -q -q -q setup.exe || exit 0]
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:15:11 -0500
- Subject: Re: [Cron cd /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin; /sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset -C -u setup.ini; /usr/local/bin/upx -q -q -q setup.exe || exit 0]
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:04:40AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 05:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>----- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon -----
>>From: root (Cron Daemon)
>>Subject: Cron <cgf> cd /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin; /sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset -C -u setup.ini; /usr/local/bin/upx -q -q -q setup.exe || exit 0
>>Date: 3 Feb 2004 18:20:06 -0000
>>
>>upset: release/xemacs/xemacs-emacs-common/setup.hint:5: unknown key 'conflicts: emacs'
>>
>>----- End forwarded message -----
>>
>>Please don't invent setup.hint keys...
>
>
>FWIW it's a valid setup.ini key. And has been for quite some time.
Yes, I know. So you keep saying. However it is not listed as a valid
keyword in the definitive documentation:
http://cygwin.com/setup.html
"Lines in setup.hint will consist of one of the following:
# comment
@ package
sdesc: "some text"
ldesc: "some text"
skip:
curr: version
prev: version
test: version
category: name1[ name2...]
requires: package[ package...]
external-source: package"
and AFAICT it does nothing in setup.exe. It is not as if users will be
scanning the setup.hint file looking for conflicts. So, there is no
reason to provide a false sense of confidence by implementing it in
upset. Therefore, it should not be used in setup.hint.
cgf