Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/12/16/20:11:25
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:05:08PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
> >To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
> >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:04 PM
> >Subject: Re: has anyone tried latest setup.exe from cvs ?
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:52:11AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> >
> >> >----- Original Message -----
> >> >From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
> >> >>i.e., that have no "version:" lines in them (what is such an
entry
> >> >>supposed to mean, or is this actually a upset bug?). The parser
> >then
> >> >>never creates a
> >> >
> >> >Chris, do you consider version: to be mandatory for setup.ini
files?
> >> >
> >> >setup.html doesn't specify (AFAICT) whether version: is optional
or
> >> >mandatory. If the decision hasn't been made, I'd prefer
mandatory.
> >>
> >>It's optional for setup.exe, certainly. There are a few packages
for
> >>which there is no version: info. I think I nuked one of them
> >>yesterday, though.
> >
> >Ah. I'll make setup.exe robust again - at the moment it dies if
there
> >is no version: entry for a package in setup.ini.
>
> I could be mistaken about this. It's been a couple of months. I
don't
> recall ever seeing lines like
This is an example that would kill setup.exe:
@ ash
sdesc: "A Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) workalike"
category: Base Shells
requires: cygwin
install: latest/ash/ash-20011018-1.tar.bz2 33819
source: latest/ash/ash-20011018-1-src.tar.bz2 143186
Rob
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