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Subject: Re: 1.3.4
From: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Date: 02 Nov 2001 13:50:39 +1100
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On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 07:28, Charles Wilson wrote:

> setup.exe (2.112):  The current vs. new vs. prev vs. test detection 
> algorithm doesn't seem to work properly.  (e.g. parsing 
> /etc/setup/installed.db and/or setup.ini)
> 
> Setup.ini says
> 
> @ ash
> sdesc: "A Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) workalike"
> category: Base Shells
> requires: cygwin
> version: 20011018-1
> install: latest/ash/ash-20011018-1.tar.bz2 33819
> source: latest/ash/ash-20011018-1-src.tar.bz2 143186
> [prev]
> version: 20010827-1
> install: latest/ash/ash-20010827-1.tar.bz2 33780
> source: latest/ash/ash-20010827-1-src.tar.bz2 143017
> 
> When my current installation was 20010827-1 (according to 
> /etc/setup/installed.db) the latest setup was perfectly happy (that is, it 
> did not want to update ash).  It just said:
> 20010827-1  Keep

That is a bug :}. It's the default logic code that is at fault
(choose.cc, line 578). The code needs to allow installed packages to
auto upgrade.
 
> So, I clicked on the 'Keep' until it changed to '20011018-1'  -- which had 
> the unfortunate side effect of reverting my "skipped" cygwin package to 
> 'I'm gonna install 1.3.3-2' (I had previously used setup to install my 
> custom cygwin-20011031 snapshot, and I wanted to stick with it for a 
> while).  So I had to go click THAT to change it back to 'skip'

That sounds like a dependency issue. So dependencies must not alter
packages that 
1) are installed
2) have any action other than uninstall.

... 
> Anyway, after rebooting, I tried again (without any active cygwin windows). 
>   I let it do its thing (e.g install new ash, but let it also "update" 
> cygwin).  I then reinstalled my custom cygwin snapshot.
> 
> Finally, I ran setup AGAIN -- just to see what it would say about my "new" 
> ash-20011018-1.
> 
> Again, it's happy. '20011018-1 Keep'
> 
> It appears that setup is perfectly happy with WHATEVER version of a given 
> pacakge is already installed.  The whole [test], [prev] and current thing 
> seems to be ignored.

Rob