Re: cygwin beta packages

2014-11-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon TURNEY writes: > You might want to start by taking a look at > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-02/msg00060.html If you were worried, I'm not gonna try Perl version objects on these... :-) Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adap

Re: cygwin beta packages

2014-11-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 11/11/2014 17:20, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: This only happens in genini AFAIK, not in upset. But the dependency issues might really be related to the test release version numbers. Yaakov is digging into upset ATM. OK, when I find time I'll have a look of how to fix it. B

Re: cygwin beta packages

2014-11-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > This only happens in genini AFAIK, not in upset. But the dependency > issues might really be related to the test release version numbers. > Yaakov is digging into upset ATM. OK, when I find time I'll have a look of how to fix it. BTW, is there a good reason to keep thi

Re: cygwin beta packages

2014-11-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > On 2014-11-10 12:31, Achim Gratz wrote: >> The current beta packages contain a "." in the release number. That dot is >> chopped off along with the anything that follows in some places during >> install in setup.exe. > > Which places exactly? We could just fix this in s

Re: cygwin beta packages

2014-11-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2014-11-10 12:31, Achim Gratz wrote: The current beta packages contain a "." in the release number. That dot is chopped off along with the anything that follows in some places during install in setup.exe. Which places exactly? We could just fix this in setup instead. -- Yaakov

Re: cygwin beta packages

2014-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 22:24, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: > > Apparently setup.exe doesn't parse the data for the cygwin package > > correctly, and its dependencies therefore don't get taken into account > > in computing the dependency order. > > To decide that, a formal definition of what is a perm

Re: cygwin beta packages

2014-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 19:31, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Two minor nits: > > The current beta packages contain a "." in the release number. [skipping this in the light of Ken's reply] > Also, can the cygwin-devel package please get a source: line in > setup.ini? Without it, I can't correctly parse setup.ini an

Re: cygwin beta packages

2014-11-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > Apparently setup.exe doesn't parse the data for the cygwin package > correctly, and its dependencies therefore don't get taken into account > in computing the dependency order. To decide that, a formal definition of what is a permissible release number is required and I don't t

Re: cygwin beta packages

2014-11-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/10/2014 1:31 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Two minor nits: The current beta packages contain a "." in the release number. That dot is chopped off along with the anything that follows in some places during install in setup.exe. A better naming scheme would use a letter there, so perhaps "0b8" (

cygwin beta packages

2014-11-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Two minor nits: The current beta packages contain a "." in the release number. That dot is chopped off along with the anything that follows in some places during install in setup.exe. A better naming scheme would use a letter there, so perhaps "0b8" (I know that this doesn't produce problems si