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From: | "Paul G." <pgarceau AT qwest DOT net> |
Organization: | New Dawn Productions |
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Date: | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:39:44 -0800 |
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Subject: | Re: Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup |
Reply-to: | Paul Garceau <pgarceau AT qwest DOT net> |
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On 21 Nov 2001 at 13:20, the Illustrious Robert Collins wrote: > I'd like to remove all source package tracking from setup.exe. > > By this I mean: > * Do not log downloaded sources to installed.db > * skip parsing any existing source records from installed.db. > * Continue to allow sources downloading. > > At the same time I'd like to add a header record to installed.db - > something like > INSTALLED.DB VERSION 2 > > to allow versioned upgrades in the future. > > This will silently break any current scripts or tools like cygcheck that > parse installed.db - which is why I'm raising it here. OTOH it will > allow detection of further breakage. > > The goal of this change is to > 1) make setup.exe a little simpler. > 2) take a step towards allowing sources to be downloaded to arbitrary > directories. No objections here. > > Rob Paul G. > > >
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