X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/CHW+IZ0xii8qlK/xTJUgs Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:21:40 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again? Message-ID: <20121125072140.GB12513@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20AD854C98A AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 07:31:48PM +0000, Paul wrote: >Robert Pendell writes: >>It isn't obsolete. All obsolete packages get assigned to _obsolete >>group. _autorebase is assigned to _PostInstallLast and is still an >>active group. It is likely hidden by default to minimize confusion. > >I searched http://cygwin.com/setup.html and http://cygwin.com/packages >for mention of package "groups", _obsolete, and _PostInstallLast. >Couldn't anything. Are such details available to noncontributors? Can >I also assume that "_update-info-dir 01088-1" is not obsolete? Unsurprisingly, and as correctly asserted above, you can assume that a package is only obsolete when it is specifically marked as obsolete. There are some categories and packages which are used internally by setup.exe. If you truly want to understand what they do then inspect their contents and read the setup source. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple