Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/12/17:52:41
A suggestion for another setup feature:
When upgrading package foo requires reinstallation of package bar
afterwards, figuring that out and then doing it.
Thanks for all the good work.
- Barry
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:15 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old
> versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old pdksh.exe got
> unlinked), and then installs the new versions (creating new files,
> essentially). It never did overwrite the file in-place. Changing this
> will probably involve radical modifications to setup's internal logic.
Not that big a change actually - we already have the concept of
upgrading internally, it just needs to be taught that an upgrade isn't
an uninstall + install, but rather an unpack followed by removing files
no longer present in the package.
Rob
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