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Re: Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:52:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup
- References: <090f01c17233$264e2a80$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:20:54PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>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.
I have no objections. The only thing I think will potentially break
cygcheck is the INSTALLED.DB VERSION 2. If you just made that VERSION_2
(no spaces) it would be silently ignored.
cgf