Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/02/10:49:27
Fergus wrote:
>
> Robert,
>
> The recent rapid evolution of setup.exe will, I am sure, result in a greatly
> improved application with many felicitous enhancements. I hope you will not
> mind a quick report of a one-off finding in the current setup.exe
> v.2.78.2.15 which stands a much greater chance than it might otherwise have,
> of being completely irrelevant. Sorry. But here goes, all the same ...
>
> On my 2nd Cygwin machine I do not have internet access and therefore
> maintain locally a directory \Cyg0\, containing just the current file
> setup.exe and current subdirectories contrib\ and latest\. These two
> subdirectories are augmented as new or replacement files/folders are
> downloaded (on to my 1st machine). Sometimes, until I clean up, there may be
> redundant versions there too.
>
> Yes, that's right, no setup.ini. A deliberate oversight that seems to have
> no detrimental consequences, for setup.exe seems to be remarkably
> intelligent: selecting the option "Install from Local Directory", it clearly
> manages to match (a) whatever the file /etc/setup/installed.db says I've got
> installed, with (b) whatever a scan of \Cyg0\ and below says is available. I
> have found that setup.exe _never_ wobbles in its update procedures,
> accurately telling new from old and old from new ...
>
> ... except just this once: it seems to think that ash-20010827-1.tar.bz2
> provides an update to ash-20011018-1.tar.bz2, whereas the reverse is the
> case.
>
> I just wondered whether there is something easily correctable in setup.exe's
> number (date) recognition facility that you might find useful to incorporate
> into your present efforts. You're allowed to tell me off for not using
> setup.exe in the approved way (i.e. in association with setup.ini) by the
> way - and you might even do this! - but, nevertheless, I hope there may be
> an atom of useful information here. (I'm always interested in rendering
> procedures, especially install procedures, as sparse as possible.)
Can you provide a copy of install.log, install.log.full and
/etc/setup/installed.db.
Did you have the old version of ash installed (ash-20010827-1.tar.bz2)
or
you just had the two packeges in the installed directory ?
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