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Re: setup


On Jun  8 14:05, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 20:47 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun  8 13:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:49 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > ...it also handles the "autodep" and "incver_ifdep" stuff in setup.hint.
> > > > 
> > > > "autodep" (and "noautodep") seems to have a bug, though, as we discussed
> > > > a while back.  It seems to miss adding some of the required dependencies.
> > > 
> > > Do we really need autodep anymore?
> > 
> > IDK.  autodep is only used to create the auto-dependency to the "cygwin"
> > package, except for the two "noautodep" packages _update-info-dir and
> > _autorebase.  The reason, afair, was to make sure the dependency chain
> > created by setup when (un-)installing in the right order makes sense.
> 
> I thought the reason was to (attempt to) assure proper ordering of
> postinstall scripts,

That's what I meant, just in so many different words ;)

> which (besides not working properly, as we discovered a while ago) we
> shouldn't need to rely on any more with the current setup.

That's where you lost me.  Why is it NOT necessary anymore?  Was there
some patch to setup I'm missing?


Corinna

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