Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/08/08/23:11:58
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 07:00:18PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>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.
If this creates a problem for you then it sounds like you definitely
should not be using snapshots.
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