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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
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Subject: | Re: Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup |
Date: | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:26:03 +1100 |
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howabout "INSTALLED.DB 2" then? Rob === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com> To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:52 PM Subject: Re: Proposal: Remove source tracking from setup > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:20:54PM +1100, 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. > > I have no objections. The only thing I think will potentially break > cygcheck is the INSTALLED.DB VERSION 2. If you just made that VERSION_2 > (no spaces) it would be silently ignored. > > cgf >
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