Re: setup

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun  8 13:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:49 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun  8 14:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Jun  3 19:11, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > > > Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> > > > > Anyone looking at the sources would be tainted thereby.  Because we are
> > > > > concerned about the licensing of upset, AFAICS we are going to have to
> > > > > clean-room reverse-engineer this.
> > > > 
> > > > So what exactly does upset that genini doesn't when it comes to
> > > > generating setup.ini and what other functions does it do in the
> > > > maintenance of the download area (which I assume is the part where it
> > > > gets hairy)?
> > > 
> > > Basically upset generates setup.ini and setup.bz2 files and a makefile
> > > signs the files.  But additionally upset also creates the data for the
> > > package search and it does the uploading from the package staging area.
> > 
> > ...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.

If you think we don't need it anymore, please explain.


Corinna

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