Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/12/31/15:31:14
On 31 December 2007 18:26, Marc Girod wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/packages/ is the best place to search. If it's in the
>> cygwin distro, that will tell you which package you need installed.
>>
>
> But what I am looking for is:
> _update-info-dir/_update-info-dir-00573-1 Generate info/dir file
> automatically
Well, that's listed there as well:
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=_update-info-dir
> Now, trying to install this from setup, I cannot find it.
You probably shouldn't be trying to to that; it's not a real package and
it's not intended for general use, it's really part of the setup.exe support
infrastructure.
> I assume it should be in the Doc category, but is not.
Nope, it's in the _PostInstallLast category.
> I cycle the View to show all packages, and get the full list in alphabetic
> order, from
> a2ps
> to
> zsh
>
> If the leading '_' was ignored, it ought to be between unzip and upx...
It's not ignored, it makes it sort right to the very end of the list.
> What am I missing?
Uncheck the "Hide obsolete packages" checkbox! Because _update-info-dir is
an internal package intended for use as a dependency of other packages only,
it's hidden away in there.
cheers,
DaveK
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