setup

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 8 19:05:00 GMT 2015


On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 20:47 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  8 13:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:49 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > ...it also handles the "autodep" and "incver_ifdep" stuff in setup.hint.
> > > 
> > > "autodep" (and "noautodep") seems to have a bug, though, as we discussed
> > > a while back.  It seems to miss adding some of the required dependencies.
> > 
> > Do we really need autodep anymore?
> 
> IDK.  autodep is only used to create the auto-dependency to the "cygwin"
> package, except for the two "noautodep" packages _update-info-dir and
> _autorebase.  The reason, afair, was to make sure the dependency chain
> created by setup when (un-)installing in the right order makes sense.

I thought the reason was to (attempt to) assure proper ordering of
postinstall scripts, which (besides not working properly, as we
discovered a while ago) we shouldn't need to rely on any more with the
current setup.

--
Yaakov




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