Maybe my localizing the problem to installed.db is wrong! What I see
doesn't involve netinstaller: just pui. Point is that I delete a
package then need to delete it again the next time.
Andy Piper wrote:
installed.db is what the netinstaller uses. I added some code to make
sure it gets updated after using PUI, but I'm not sure whether it
works as intended.
andy
At 03:08 AM 3/5/02 +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:
> |--==> "s" == superbiskit <superbiskit(a)cox.net> writes:
>
> s> Using Tools->Packages->List-and-install:
> s> After retrieving the package-index, several packages which I had
> s> previously deleted are marked for download as "new". IMHO, I knew
> s> what I was doing when I deleted them the first time. The
> installed.db
> s> should remember that they were deleted and not select them for
> update.
>
>
> [...]
>
> s> Recent messages (most recent first):
> s> -----------------------------------
>
> s> Loading xemacsbug...done
> s> Loading xemacsbug...
> s> Wrote /usr/local/lib/xemacs/setup/installed.db
>
> This file doesn't exist on Unix, so I'd have to assume that this
> problem is somehow related to Windows. I don't see the problem you
> describe on GNU/Linux.
>
> Andy? Adrian? Any ideas?
>
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