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Re: setup.exe stalled?


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:56:56AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>>Okay, I noticed two weird things:
>>
>>1) somethings flaky with the parser.  libncurses5 (for instance) shows up 
>>in a category called "Base Libs" --- and does not show up in the "Base" or 
>>"Libs" category.
>>
> 
> This was a serious thinko on my part.  The setup.exe parser works as it should
> rather than the way I thought it did.
> 
> To indicate that a package belongs in two categories, you do this:
> 
> category: Foo Bar
> 
> not
> 
> category: "Foo Bar"
> 
> The latter results in a 'Foo Bar' category rather than two separate categories.
> I even got this wrong when I explained it to Gerrit Haase.
> 
> With luck, I've fixed both setup.ini and the 'upset' program which is used to
> generate the setup.ini.


I guess you probably ALSO should say:

requires: foo bar

and not

requires: "foo bar"

right?

--Chuck




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