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Re: Unbelievably obscure setup bug
On Nov 19 13:23, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 19/11/2010 13:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > The code in question was supposed to make sure that the order is always
> > "base-cygwin base-passwd [...]" and that was the case so far. Of
> > course, given the obvious mishandling of the casecompare return value
> > it's not clear why this ever worked. Even more mysterious is the fact
> > that the bugfix *breaks* this order. Well, time to debug...
>
> Well, the bugfix breaks the order because visit() on "base-cygwin" inserts it
> and all it's dependencies depth-first (ignoring loops).
In theory base-cygwin has no dependecies. Here are the setup.hint
snippets:
base-cygwin:
category: Base
base-passwd:
requires: base-cygwin
category: Base
noautodep: cygwin
cygwin:
requires: base-passwd base-cygwin
noautodep: _update-info-dir
I think that explains it. The problem in base-cygwin is that it depends
on cygwin since the "noautodep: cygwin" is missing. So there's a
dependency chain which goes "base-cygwin -> cygwin -> base-passwd".
That's how this order is generated. If we add "noautodep: cygwin" to
base-cygwin, it would really have no dependency and should always become
the first package.
Corinna
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