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Re: New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> bash <-> _update_info_dir
> texinfo <-> _update_info_dir
>
> All other dependencies are looking sound from what I can tell.
>
> So, I would like to propose to remove the "requires: bash texinfo" line
> from _update_info_dir's setup.hint file. It appears that these
> requirements break the whole ordering. Maybe we should simply
> replace it with "requires: cygwin" instead.
Seems ok to me, but we'd have to put texinfo into Base, in that case.
Otherwise it won't get installed automatically, and _update_info_dir
would fail on a Base-only install.
Aside: since setup.hint allows comments (which do not clutter
setup.ini), we should probably annotate setup.hints whose requires: have
been...manipulated...in odd ways.
e.g.
===== _update_info_dir/setup.hint =====
sdesc: "Generate info/dir file automatically"
category: _PostInstallLast
requires: cygwin
# also requires texinfo bash, but
# a) both are in Base, so we rely on that
# b) we don't explicitly require them because that introduces
# a bad dependency loop with regards to postinstall scripts
autodep: usr/(?:share/)?info/.*
incver_ifdep: yes
# verpat: (_update_info)(dir-\d+-\d+)(.*)
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Chuck