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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:20:47 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: cygwin archive? (previous versions for fallback)
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:09:47AM -0600, Polley Christopher W wrote:
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> >On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >> However, Cygwin setup.exe's cache should have all previous versions
> >> installed including PostgreSQL unless one deletes them.  Hence, the
> >> old PostgreSQL version should still have been available for the
> >> pg_dump phase.
> >
> >Not if it's not present in the newly downloaded setup.ini, I don't
> >think...
> 
> No, unless the user takes steps to clean out the download directory
> (with Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl script, for example) all
> previously downloaded tarballs persist.  

Exactly.

> Being able to installing one of those previous tarballs with setup is
> another story, though.  One way that I know of is to force setup to
> put the packages of interest into the Misc category.

I have used "Install from Local Directory" and setting the "Local
Package Directory" to the directory containing the tarball successfully
in the past.

Jason

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