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Re: New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:57:51AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 19 22:46, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:48:44PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> >Can we special-case upset not to add _update-info-dir to the Cygwin
>> >package?
>> 
>> I'm not a big fan of special casing and in this case I don't have to.
>> I just added a "noautodep: _update_info_dir" to cygwin's setup.hint.
>
>Cool.  I'm curious how this changes the dependency order.
>
>> But we'll still get a dependency loop with base-passwd.  I have removed
>> that dependency in release.  It looks like this isn't needed in
>> release-2.
>
>I removed all dependencies from release-2/base-passwd except for
>base-cygwin a couple of days ago.  Hopefully we get to the point
>where the base packages' postinstalls run first.

Keeping a base-dependency in cygwin would make setup want to run base-*
before cygwin, though.  Cygwin doesn't *really* depend on these packages
(it doesn't need them to run) so I don't think they should be a
dependency.

cgf


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