Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

[Ken Brown]

On 7/3/2016 10:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/1/2016 7:38 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>>>
>>> IÂ’ve written a script to do that automatically.
>>
>> IÂ’ve improved the script so that it no longer requires any
>> parameters.  It finds the last-used setup.ini file and extracts the
>> list of currently-installed packages, all on its own.
>
> This script has a couple of problems.  First, it doesn't take dependency
> loops into account.  For example, if package p requires q and q requires
> p, then both will be marked as non-root.  Second, if the mirror was used
> for both an x86 and x86_64 installation, it always uses the x86
> setup.ini, regardless of the current architecture.

The second problem is easy to fix.  I think you can fix the first 
problem by using the dependency order computed by setup and recorded in 
/var/log/setup.log.full:

$ grep "Dependency order" /var/log/setup.log.full
Dependency order of packages: base-cygwin cygwin libdbus1_3 libiconv2 
libintl8 libffi6 libpcre1 liblzma5 libgcc1 libstdc++6 terminfo...

You should only mark a package as a non-root if it is required by a 
package that occurs later in the list.

Ken

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