Where is patch?

[Lennart Borgman]

Brian Dessent wrote:

>>I am not sure I understand what you mean. What is the "requires" line?
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>It is in the setup.ini file (which is generated from the individual
>setup.hint files), which are not directly seen by the user but parsed by
>setup.exe.
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>>Where is it? Should binutils have been dowloaded automatically when I
>>downloaded gcc-core?
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>Yes, whenever you select a package for installation it should also
>select for installation all packages that that package requires.
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Thanks for the good explanation.

>Ah, that might explain it.  Setup is not all that great about error
>recovery.  Fortunately you can work around this by just running it again
>if anything abnormal happens.  Every time you run setup it will first
>add any packages that are not installed but listed as a requirement by
>packages that are installed.  So if you just run it, and don't select
>anything, then you should get any missing dependencies downloaded and
>installed.
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I believe I did that without opening anything in the selection tree 
first, but I am not totally sure. Is it necessary to open a node in the 
tree for the process to continue?

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