Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/05/15/11:24:27
I assume that the cygwin1.dll that you downloaded was older because
you used a mirror which hadn't received the newest version of cygwin
yet. This is, again, an assumption that I hadn't realized that I
was making. I assumed that people would realize that it took a while
for new versions of software to reach mirror sites, but I should have
made that clear.
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 05:27:07PM +0200, Thomas DOT Wolff AT icn DOT siemens DOT de wrote:
>I had a plain old (?) installation of cygwin B20 without any cygdrive
>mounts. Now after the announcement, I just tried to setup -u cygwin.
>
>My first surprise was that it did not install over my current cygwin;
>should I have entered
>"C:\Programme\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32" when I was asked for
>a directory or what? It downloaded all files in C:\tmp and left them
>there.
So, I assume that c:\tmp was the empty directory that I specified.
What are "all of the files", exactly? "setup -u cygwin" should have
downloaded one file.
The procedure that I mentioned in my email was intended for updating
an already existing "new" cygwin installation. I had assumed that
anyone updating to 1.1.1 would already have 1.1.0 on their system.
I know that it is usually stupid to assume things like this but I
actually never conceived of the fact that someone would take my
instructions and try to update a B20 installation.
>Surprise 2 was the downloaded directory structure. It includes a lot
>of directories that I couldn't match to the old structure, including a
>whole new ...i686... tree (I was assuming I might have to move
>downloaded files into their correct place). Why this multiple forest
>of bin/lib/H-i586/something-686 subtrees anyway? Well, maybe I don't
>need to understand that.
I guess you haven't been reading this mailing list much. We're
standardizing on one layout. Incidentally, it does not include the
H-i586 part that you mentioned above, unless you want it to.
>Next surprise was that the downloaded cygwin1.dll, just announced, was
>dated March, 2000 - much older than the latest snapshot.
I.e., you downloaded from a mirror which hadn't received the 1.1.1
version yet.
>And finally, if I now start a cygwin shell, I get an environment where
>C:\tmp is mounted to / and nothing works as before (C:\ was /).
I have no idea what you're talking about here. Possibly this is a
side effect of the fact that you haven't installed the entire net
release.
Otherwise, if this is really true, you can easily rectify this behavior
by using the mount/umount command.
>Help! I want my straightforward old cygwin configuration back, please.
Check out the 'old' directory. The b20 stuff is still available in
the old/cygwin-b20 directory. Feel free to reinstall from there.
cgf
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