setup.exe packagedb cache refresh bug

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sat May 22 06:18:00 GMT 2010


On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 02:13:40AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>It seems like this patch would always throw away the previously read
>packages.  I haven't looked closely but that suggests a memory leak.
>
>Wouldn't it make more sense to only populate the package list when you
>know where your root lives?

This comment in  RootPage::OnNext would suggest that this was already
supposed to have been handled.

/* Deferred initialization of packagedb *after* the root dir has been
     chosen. */

cgf



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