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:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=ROmJW 2Mjhz626mZL+WNFbavz/uXp8WTwhWgLTxxps0Am7xRTHxMX49Z5ES4CeJeN7/kDo 8dobO+wXNQzDL4OnSmI19A64i+xiFZtPgptUXgHygGk4okRK/CFyryYE3fOpEoOV BTsOEjkh1o2Y3ThgDG6s8r+w3fQpeRnvMksCGg= 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:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=default; bh=YjkE5l1/z7c cFerhKCs6kPJqqhU=; b=ZmyQ1XuRFF4KIAy36tWY7Ff66q5Kll1OS5j9w5cp9m+ 25Pf07SfWpkhZpglcHQiTbY7HppXdyGtj3fK3nBWztwAMkLfuKf/OtFBzE8058vz ywTQk/rLB/dRBEUCTBWWDpZcCXWroWlLxxfoHj/8tW4bCoTWkGvSDxIy4C6493yQ = 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,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup-x86(_64) (v2.889) ... just a question References: Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:32:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: (houder@xs4all.nl's message of "Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:39:47 +0100") Message-ID: <876068x54b.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT Houder writes: > Is this the future of setup? Meaning, is it the intention that it may > be possible that installed.db refers to files that do not exist? The entries in that file have not been referring to actual file names for at least a decade if not longer. It's just been kept that way in order to stay compatible with any known and unknown consumers of that data. The only real meaning is the _version_ that setup knows to be installed (the packagename is the first part of the line and just repeated for the version part that still looks liek a filename). For setup itself, the file name to be installed doesn't need to match anything at all (it wouldn't even need a .tar.xz suffix to fihgure out the file type), but there's a naming convention that gets followed. It's mostly so that one can look at the install log and understand what has been installed or more easily find a file to manually install. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves -- 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