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On Jun 8 14:05, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 20:47 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jun 8 13:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > > On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:49 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > ...it also handles the "autodep" and "incver_ifdep" stuff in setup.hint. > > > > > > > > "autodep" (and "noautodep") seems to have a bug, though, as we discussed > > > > a while back. It seems to miss adding some of the required dependencies. > > > > > > Do we really need autodep anymore? > > > > IDK. autodep is only used to create the auto-dependency to the "cygwin" > > package, except for the two "noautodep" packages _update-info-dir and > > _autorebase. The reason, afair, was to make sure the dependency chain > > created by setup when (un-)installing in the right order makes sense. > > I thought the reason was to (attempt to) assure proper ordering of > postinstall scripts, That's what I meant, just in so many different words ;) > which (besides not working properly, as we discovered a while ago) we > shouldn't need to rely on any more with the current setup. That's where you lost me. Why is it NOT necessary anymore? Was there some patch to setup I'm missing? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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