Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: RE: release setup now? X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:35:21 +1100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Charles Wilson" Cc: "CygWin-Apps" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g2J6ZRm31504 > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:25 PM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: CygWin-Apps > Subject: Re: release setup now? > > > Robert Collins wrote: > > > Can we? Huh huh? > > I think so. I know of two minor (non-show-stopper) nits: > > 1) IF (and only if) folks have used the setup-snapshots AND they > happened to use a particular version (dunno which one, > sorry), then the probably all the currently available ones :}. > This has been fixed in setup itself -- but the bad .lst.gz > files remain. > This *may* cause trouble in the future (when the .lst file > is re-read > for uninstall) but > a) it only affects a few people > b) it may not even be a problem (don't borrow trouble) > c) it's easily fixed by hand It's not a problem that can be solved easily by us. I think it's the provide they paid for helping out - I know I paid it on _many_ list files. The solution, in case it's not blindingly obvious, is to reinstall the affected packages with the now-released version. > 2) It seems that when uninstalling (or upgrading), if the uninstalled > package leaves behing a directory that is empty, the directory is not > removed. Not a big deal, and certainly not a showstopper. Hmm, has that behaviour changed? I'll add a TODO for it. Rob