Re: Setup-x86(_64) (v2.889) ... just a question

2018-03-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder writes: > Is this the future of setup? Meaning, is it the intention that it may > be possible that installed.db refers to files that do not exist? The entries in that file have not been referring to actual file names for at least a decade if not longer. It's just been kept that way in orde

Re: Setup-x86(_64) (v2.889) ... just a question

2018-03-06 Thread Houder
On 2018-03-06 16:38, Jon Turney wrote: On 06/03/2018 13:39, Houder wrote: [...]> However to my surprise /etc/setup/installed.db now lists: 64-@@ grep -e cscope -e lz4 /drv/e/Cygwin64-test/etc/setup/installed.db cscope cscope-15.8a-2.tar.bz2 1 < artifical version number liblz4_1 liblz4_1-1

Re: Setup-x86(_64) (v2.889) ... just a question

2018-03-06 Thread Jon Turney
On 06/03/2018 13:39, Houder wrote: [...]> However to my surprise /etc/setup/installed.db now lists: 64-@@ grep -e cscope -e lz4 /drv/e/Cygwin64-test/etc/setup/installed.db cscope cscope-15.8a-2.tar.bz2 1 < artifical version number liblz4_1 liblz4_1-1.7.5-0.tar.bz2 0 < ditto These files

Re: Setup-x86(_64) (v2.889) ... just a question (CORRECTION)

2018-03-06 Thread Houder
On 2018-03-06 14:39, Houder wrote: L.S., Just a question, meaning it may have been discussed in cygwin-apps, but I have been reading that list for quite a while now. [snip] I should have added: ... next I decided to install the previous versions of both cscope and liblz4_1. However to my su

Setup-x86(_64) (v2.889) ... just a question

2018-03-06 Thread Houder
L.S., Just a question, meaning it may have been discussed in cygwin-apps, but I have been reading that list for quite a while now. Recently I reported a problem: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-03/msg00042.html (Another setup v2.889 regression? additional information) Jon T. applied