Hi all. I've been developing a Python package that can interrogate and manipulate local package caches (the directories where setupXXX.exe keeps its downloads) and installation databases (from Cygwin /etc/setup/installed.db files) with a mind to pruning, merging and reporting in the spiript of Michael A. Chase's 'clean_setup' utility but as a scriptable tool set rather than a stand-alone utility.
It's not production ready yet but it's already flagged up some issues. For example we have lots of dependency loops in the 'requires' fields in setup.ini - even to the point that some packages depend upon themselves! And also we have some dependency omissions. For example, mintty doesn't depend upon anything - it has no requires field. Surely, every binary package should depend at least upon 'cygwin'? Is this a known issue or should I report in more detail? -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
