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From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 07:03:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> >
> > > The cygipc package has not been reinstalled, it, now, belongs to
> > > obsolte section.
> > >
> > > Should I reinstall it or is sufficient to delete '-lcygipc' from the
> > > build command?
> >
> > Actually, cygipc *is* installed, but the new version is empty (as are all
> > obsolete packages)
>
> Doesn't seem to be true in this case:
>
> setup.ini:
>
> setup-timestamp: 1134667219
> ...
> @ cygipc
> sdesc: "IPC support for cygwin"
> ldesc: "CygIPC provides a library, headers, and a daemon that can
> be used to provide IPC services for cygwin.  It is, however, slated
> to become obsolete once the cygserver is complete (cygserver is a
> similar library and daemon that will be a built-in part of the main
> cygwin DLL)."
> category: _obsolete
> requires: cygwin libpopt0
> version: 2.03-2
> install: release/_obsolete/cygipc/cygipc-2.03-2.tar.bz2 374271 38e9b514fd9c0946a8d019d8a4c9b031
> source: release/_obsolete/cygipc/cygipc-2.03-2-src.tar.bz2 81505 71ff16929a3128a1c9a63c657deb380b
> [prev]
> version: 2.02-1
> install: release/_obsolete/cygipc/cygipc-2.02-1.tar.bz2 358773 6340582cd657fb3beabef20ee47c5f78
> source: release/_obsolete/cygipc/cygipc-2.02-1-src.tar.bz2 75792 d08c0fa695264c881fd6c7fe16a10226
>
> $ cygcheck -c cygipc
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Sta
> cygipc               2.03-2         OK
>
> $ cygcheck -l cygipc
> /etc/postinstall/cygipc.sh
> [snip more cygipc content]

True -- I should've checked before assuming that this would be the case.
Seems to be a cygipc packaging bug.  Chuck, can we get an empty 2.03-3?
	Igor
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