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Re: Unbelievably obscure setup bug


On 19/11/2010 13:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The code in question was supposed to make sure that the order is always
> "base-cygwin base-passwd [...]" and that was the case so far.  Of
> course, given the obvious mishandling of the casecompare return value
> it's not clear why this ever worked.  Even more mysterious is the fact
> that the bugfix *breaks* this order.  Well, time to debug...

Well, the bugfix breaks the order because visit() on "base-cygwin" inserts it
and all it's dependencies depth-first (ignoring loops).

I guess what's needed is a separate function to insert something explicitly
into the ordered list and mark that as visited, and use that for "base-cygwin"
and "base-passwd".


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