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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
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Subject: | Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup |
Date: | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:20:54 +1100 |
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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. Rob
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