This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: The upload system is live (Re: Major changes coming to procedure for uploading to sourceware)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:26:14 -0400
- Subject: Re: The upload system is live (Re: Major changes coming to procedure for uploading to sourceware)
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <20131012202237 dot GA6588 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <20131016165245 dot GA4989 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <20131017043000 dot GA1196 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <CAGHJv4f78gG7YSYDz75vuN4i0Nct+DAbuj6m++tcRgnnsHgV6w at mail dot gmail dot com> <20131022185043 dot GB6432 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <87vc0pqeoa dot fsf at Rainer dot invalid> <20131022195945 dot GA2898 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <87r4bdqct6 dot fsf at Rainer dot invalid>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:18:45PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>> I don't see any reason for a delete file since only files referenced
>> by setup.hint should exist in the release directory.
>
>There are currently a handful of packages where an earlier version than
>"previous" is kept (ostensibly so that this version can be installed by
>hand when chosing the "previous" version of another package which
>requires it). I wouldn't mind a "keep" keyword in setup.hint for those
>cases.
If someone is intentionally doing this then this isn't supported
behavior. If files aren't there for the purposes of setup.exe then they
really shouldn't be in the release directory at all.
cgf