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Re: [PATCH setup 00/10] Various setup patches
Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> The checksum information has to come from somewhere and that somewhere
>> requires a package install or update. Together with that new setup we might
>> have an update of cygccheck and some unrelated packages that happen to
>> have been rebuilt recently, but certainly not the whole distribution.
>
> Why is that important? The checksums will collect over time.
That's the plan, but then you'll have to deal with missing checksums
while that particular strand of hair grows out.
> I don't think I understand what you're up to. Why is it important
> to add the extra information all at once? And if that's the case,
> couldn't we use a runonce postinstall script for that?
I was interpreting your reply that you wanted the tools to only support
the new list formats. I'm not sure what you suppose the postinstall
script should do, but it certainly shouldn't be trying to checksum the
existing installation and using _that_ information instead.
Regards,
Achim.
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