Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-10-02 Thread Jon Turney
On 29/09/2017 21:16, Sam Edge (Cygwin) wrote: 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 prun

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Sam Edge
On 30/09/2017 12:23, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Indeed. However, while off label usage of Cygwin is anathema to me but >> sometimes I wish 'base' wasn't quite so big and have to pare things down >> a little once installed, e.g. as part of a makefile- and/or >> Eclipse-based build tree in source code

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Sam Edge! >>> 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! >> Dependency upon itself is curious, but other

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Sam Edge
Hi Andrey. Nice to be back in a thread with such esteemed folk. ;-) On 30/09/2017 10:00, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Sam Edge (Cygwin)! > >> I've been developing a Python package that can interrogate and >> manipulate local package caches (the directories where setupXXX.exe >> keeps its down

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Sam Edge (Cygwin)! > 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 >

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 30/09/2017 00:39, Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:16:17, "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" wrote: 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! It is the job of the package manager to detect and

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
On 29/09/2017 23:39, Steven Penny wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:16:17, "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" wrote: >> 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! > > It is the job of the package manager to det

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-29 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:53:52, Doug Henderson wrote: mintty is a windows, non-cygwin, executable No, its not: $ cygcheck mintty Found: C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe C:\cygwin64\bin\cygwin1.dll which does not depend on cygwin1.dll Yes, it does: $ ldd /bin/mintty.exe

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-29 Thread Doug Henderson
On 29 September 2017 at 14:16, Sam Edge (Cygwin) wrote: > … mintty doesn't > depend upon anything - it has no requires field. … mintty is a windows, non-cygwin, executable which does not depend on cygwin1.dll There are a few other such programs, which (I guess) are built using the mingw32 tools

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-29 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:16:17, "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" wrote: 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! It is the job of the package manager to detect and avoid such loops. No database is perfect

Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-29 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
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 Mic