Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/04/18:59:05
On 2 Nov 2001 at 18:59, the Illustrious Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 18:45, Paul G. wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2 Nov 2001 at 17:52, the Illustrious Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 17:37, Paul G. wrote:
> > > > snapshot -4
> > >
> > > > Does "Keep" care whether binary has been installed or not? If
> > > > not, then "Keep+src=ticked" would handle this nicely.
> > >
> > > Yes, keep is for the case where a package is installed.
> > > Additionally, there is no uninstall for source currently!
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> > Think I found another bug, one that could be changed in to a
> > "feature" ;-).
> >
> > It is assumed that you have already downloaded the binary using
> > setup.exe -4.
> >
> > When uninstalling a binary package, such as patch, from setup.exe,
> > the logical result is that the patch binary is removed.
> >
> > You can then, using snapshot -4, download the source by selecting
> > revision 0.0 and setting "src=ticked". Interesting. The
> > funny/interesting thing is that if you have the binary installed,
> > revision 0.0 does not appear ;-). Revision 0.0 only appears after an
> > uninstall of the binary package has occurred, or at least so it would
> > seem.
>
> Which package? I just tried this cron, and while it did default to
> "source" rather the current version - something I'm about to fix :} - it
> wouldn't show 0.0 for me. 0.0 is show for packages that don't have a
> version stamp - and some of the old packages don't or didn't have
> versions. You may have 'lucked' onto one of those in the 'prev' field.
I was looking at Utils category when I discovered this. patch and time both show this
behaviour. time is always set to version 0.0. patch is reverted to version 0.0.
Sounds like I did "luck" in to it...;-).
Anyway, thought it was interesting. Haven't taken time to look through all categories.
Database category does not have this behaviour, at least not with postgresql.
Paul G.
>
> Rob
>
>
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