X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=WajXLdOddoz/9FJpZPqL2m5fmwpHuxD5E+9DsNO5R9W iF2WPZ73rIF443s/CkxOHW9wV9o++e+ZLXnn6FxusxBzKtqdHUYjAhDf/pLnuxE3 W5wY94v7HnwWKv96F2CRIPNPHPy12zTrh33YZJ4Gv/vTmrGrj6U/g/ZliisgLOqA = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=lKCt7qodAOQ0UWxlssLbOIobYHE=; b=ZkMW3qL4JDeYlmK/b MsVq/t0DgbXL5lAfk+ElzVvJseksRWhrZjycOZCAJdSn9BOt0cdxIRMOAyGRRlyQ /IYknJZaTSAcNiU6NPBG2uBQjdYxcP5yE2cb1CYGxf66bySgDeKOax5r10a/C0SE 78gY1giNk/PfcEKIBXCbltab+M= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Message-ID: <546219A9.2070103@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:14:01 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours References: <24713230 DOT 20141024153002 AT yandex DOT ru> <1414559159086-112282 DOT post AT n5 DOT nabble DOT com> <319337147 DOT 20141029151332 AT yandex DOT ru> <1414708038168-112334 DOT post AT n5 DOT nabble DOT com> <54567198 DOT 8000504 AT cornell DOT edu> <20141103102515 DOT GS14051 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <87a948kvpw DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> <20141104085958 DOT GA4932 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <54618F4C DOT 6000107 AT cygwin DOT com> <546191B0 DOT 4050808 AT cygwin DOT com> <20141111115343 DOT GQ2782 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20141111115343.GQ2782@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 11/11/2014 6:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 10 22:33, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> On 2014-11-10 22:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> Dependency order of packages: libgcc1 base-cygwin cygwin dash tzcode >>> libstdc++6 terminfo sed gzip libpcre1 grep libreadline7 bash >>> libncursesw10 >> [snip] >> >> Now that I think about it, regardless of libgcc1, that still doesn't make >> much sense. sed, grep, and bash depend on libintl8, which depends on >> libiconv2, and libreadline7 (which is required by bash) itself depends on >> libncursesw10, so that should be at least two places earlier. All of those >> dependencies are listed in setup.hint (and hence setup.ini), so is there >> something wrong with setup itself? > > What about dependency loops? > > AFAICS, coreutils depends on tzcode, tzcode depends on coreutils. Both > depend on libgcc1. This introduces a big problem in dependency > resolution because there's no unambiguous starting point. > > What if we remove the coretuls dep from tzcode. > > Or, actually, what if we make sure that Base packages only depend > on libs, but never on any other Base package? Except that all Base packages (other than base-cygwin) should depend on base-cygwin. That will guarantee that base-cygwin precedes all other Base packages in the dependency order. And if we make _autorebase depend on nothing, then we're guaranteed that it precedes anything that depends on it. Ken -- 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