Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:00:18 -0700
From:	Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20040802.tar.bz2 contains extra files?
Message-ID:	<20040809020018.GA2692@efn.org>
References:	<20040808210000 DOT GA2556 AT efn DOT org> <20040809005932 DOT GA27445 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<20040809005932.GA27445@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.4.1i
Organization:	bs"d
X-IsSubscribed:	yes

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:59:32PM -0400, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:00:00PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> >I downloaded and installed
> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20040802.tar.bz2
> >
> >and was a bit surprised to see that it included files normally in the
> >w32api and mingw-runtime packages as well as a few other files (and
> >/bin/dumper.exe which is normally in the cygwin package was missing).
> 
> dumper missing is a problem.  The extra files are not.

Ok, I can live with that.  It does seem to me that it creates a
problem further down the line: if one installs a snapshot and later
upgrades to the next version of the cygwin package, cygcheck would not
report anything to indicate that what is installed is in any way
non-standard.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -