Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup
Robert Collins
robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Wed Nov 14 14:17:00 GMT 2001
I'd like to remove all source package tracking from setup.exe.
By this I mean:
* Do not log downloaded sources to installed.db
* skip parsing any existing source records from installed.db.
* Continue to allow sources downloading.
At the same time I'd like to add a header record to installed.db -
something like
INSTALLED.DB VERSION 2
to allow versioned upgrades in the future.
This will silently break any current scripts or tools like cygcheck that
parse installed.db - which is why I'm raising it here. OTOH it will
allow detection of further breakage.
The goal of this change is to
1) make setup.exe a little simpler.
2) take a step towards allowing sources to be downloaded to arbitrary
directories.
Rob
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