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On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:18:44AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote: >> >> > I would like to make a new release next week but I'm not 100% sure how >> > to do this. I can put a new version of cygwin-whatever.tar.gz on the >> > web site but we don't really want to have everyone download the entire >> > distribution just to update cygwin. >> >> Accept the fact that setup doesn't support updates yet, and publish >> instructions for a manual upgrade. It's not that hard to do if cygwin >> is already installed, except that the dll needs to be moved into place >> manually, which means untargz'ing in a temp directory, and using >> explorer to move the files into place. > >You forgot, making sure that no process is currently running Cygwin. > >How about an update/cygwin/v1.1.1 directory and link latest/cygwin to it? It is not the directory layout that I was asking about. That's pretty clear. I just have to make cygwin-20000428.tar.gz or whatever. Setup should do the right thing with this. Unfortunately, right now, it will require downloading a number of packages. cgf
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