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Subject: | RE: release setup now? |
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Date: | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:35:21 +1100 |
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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> |
Cc: | "CygWin-Apps" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:25 PM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: CygWin-Apps > Subject: Re: release setup now? > > > Robert Collins wrote: > > > Can we? Huh huh? > > I think so. I know of two minor (non-show-stopper) nits: > > 1) IF (and only if) folks have used the setup-snapshots AND they > happened to use a particular version (dunno which one, > sorry), then the probably all the currently available ones :}. > This has been fixed in setup itself -- but the bad .lst.gz > files remain. > This *may* cause trouble in the future (when the .lst file > is re-read > for uninstall) but > a) it only affects a few people > b) it may not even be a problem (don't borrow trouble) > c) it's easily fixed by hand It's not a problem that can be solved easily by us. I think it's the provide they paid for helping out - I know I paid it on _many_ list files. The solution, in case it's not blindingly obvious, is to reinstall the affected packages with the now-released version. > 2) It seems that when uninstalling (or upgrading), if the uninstalled > package leaves behing a directory that is empty, the directory is not > removed. Not a big deal, and certainly not a showstopper. Hmm, has that behaviour changed? I'll add a TODO for it. Rob
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