Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/09/24/17:42:56
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:40:25PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>Paul McFerrin wrote:
>>When I inadvertantly ran setup to perform an upgrade of my B20
>>environment the other week, I noticed that it deleted some files in my
>>/bin directory. One particular file was "cal.exe" which I use more
>>frequently than a real calendar. Is this normal or was it a fluke. I
>>restored it from my backups. Also deleted were "egrep.exe" and
>>"fgrep.exe".
>
>
><http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=%2Fbin%2Fcal>
><http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=%2Fbin%2Fegrep>
>
>I don't think it's reasonable to expect 'setup.exe' to upgrade your
>packages from a B20 installation since too much has changed since then.
>The key is to find the packages with the utilities you want and install
>them. You can see from the links above, what you want still exists.
>Just install the appropriate package.
>
>
>>Can anyone explain the logic setup uses to determine which files to
>>delete? Was it caused by some menu items not being checked with
>>"keep"?
>
>If you uninstall a package, it removes the files for that package. If
>you ask for an upgrade, it removes the old files and installs the new
>ones. Of course, that assumes that the packages were installed with
>'setup.exe' to begin with. If not, all bets are off.
Yeah, I hear ya. B20 sure was great. Sigh.
cgf
--
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 -