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RE: release setup now?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: "CygWin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:35:21 +1100
- Subject: RE: release setup now?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.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