Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/11/12:34:41
Sorry, I should not have asked about where to put the downloaded files;
of course that would not matter given that the argument to tar includes
the path to the downloads.
BUT: The "How do I install snapshots?" FAQ answer is still unclear. It
says:
Before installing a snapshot, you must first Close all Cygwin
applications, including shells and services (e.g. inetd, sshd), before
updating cygwin1.dll....
1. Download the snapshot, and run:
cd /
tar ...
cd /tmp
tar ...
2. After closing all Cygwin apps (see above), use Explorer or the
Windows command shell to move C:\cygwin\tmp\usr\bin\cygwin1.dll to
C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll.
So once again I ask for clarification. I really do think it's a very
simple and perfectly straightforward question: Does one run those 4
commands in Step 1 from a Windows command prompt or from within Cygwin?
Dave Korn wrote:
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
> [Murray, let's keep this thread on-list please.]
>
>
>>Sorry, I don't understand your reply, either.
>>
>>To put it very simply: To intstall the snapshot:
>>
>> (1) Where do I put the downloaded snapshot files?
>
>
> You can put them where-ever you like. That's why the tar command is written
> with an argument of "/posix/path/to/cygwin-inst-YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2": that
> doesn't mean you literally write /posix/path/to....., it means you replace
> that bit with the path to where-ever you wanted to download them to.
>
>
>> (2) Do I run the 4 listed commands from a Windows command prompt,
>> or instead from within Cygwin.
>
>
> As it says in the FAQ, ...
>
> 1) download the snapshot and run these commands
> 2) shut down all cygwin apps and move the final file into place.
>
> ... so why do you keep asking if 2) comes before 1)?
>
> And if 2) doesn't come before 1), why would you worry about having a cygwin
> app running at stage 1) if you don't have to "shut down all cygwin apps" until
> stage 2)?
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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