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Re: Make a package never update
- To: "Matthew O. Persico" <persicom at acedsl dot com>
- Subject: Re: Make a package never update
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:07:56 -0400
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:10:12PM -0400, Matthew O. Persico wrote:
>"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>>
>> Matthew O. Persico schrieb am 2001-09-09, 19:07:
>>
>> >I do not want perl updated on my cygwin - I prefer to hack at it from a
>> >perl built under windows (don't ask). If I never want the perl under
>> >cygwin updated, is it sufficient to remove it from cygwin using
>> >setup.exe? Will that prevent future updates from ever being shown to me?
>>
>> Setup.exe will offer you every package that is not installed at your
>> system, always the latest available version.
>> If you have no perl installed, it will be offered and you will have to
>> unselect it everytime.
>>
>
>Hmm. Sounds like it's time for a patch - adding "Never" to the list of
>possibilities for a package update. Now I have to find the setup.exe
>code.
It's in cvs in the "cinstall" directory. The cvs sources are mentioned
in the "Sources in CVS" link on the cygwin web page.
Adding a never category should be doable. You could just add something
pertinent to /etc/setup/installed.db to record the fact that you don't
ever want to install a given package.
I think that this would be a nice addition.
Good luck.
cgf
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