Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/12/17:10:31
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On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote:
> >One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partitio=
n)
> >involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe -> pdksh.exe to a =
hard
> >link. When an new version of pdksh was installed, it resulted in two non
> >linked files. I had the new version as psksh.exe and the old version as
> >ksh.exe.
>=20
> Huh. I wonder why that happened. I would expect setup.exe to just
> overwrite one file, resulting in the change being reflected in the
> linked copy.
>=20
> I'm no longer familiar enough with setup's internals to say for sure
> if that is what happening but it does appear that the file is being
> deleted. That behavior could probably be changed with an appropriate
> PTC.
Uninstall + install is the setup process.
To fix it is possible... but not trivial.
Rob
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