On Jan 27 07:55, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > I checked in code which fixes this issue, which simplifies the package > > choosing algorithm when clicking on the package line, and which > > implements the default package in a way which never "downgrades" a > > package without the user's explicit consent by choosing the lower > > package version manually. This is much more in line with the update > > mechanism in Linux package managers. > > You may have solved a long-standing problem. Let's see if everything > else still works... :-) > > BTW, if you switch one package to "test" (or "prev"), then all packages > belonging to the same source package must be switched to the same state. > I'm currently doing this with an external tool via setup.ini rewrites, > but setup.exe should be taught how to do that for manual intervention.
That's a bit over my head in terms of understanding setup's dependency resolution algorithm. Perhaps we should rewrite it in plain C... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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