Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 12:38:44 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: How does setup.exe handle duplicate files? Message-ID: <20000609123844.A23003@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <3941086F.9AE1D33A@dothill.com> <200006091540.LAA00812@envy.delorie.com> <20000609114851.A22793@cygnus.com> <3941191E.F3A9432F@dothill.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3941191E.F3A9432F@dothill.com>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:19:42PM -0400 On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:19:42PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >Chris Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:40:59AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >> >> Does setup.exe handle duplicate files correctly? To be explicit, if >> >> more than one tar.gz archive contain a file with the same name, does >> >> setup.exe install the correct one? >> > >> >No, it just randomly picks one. As of setup 1.48, though, it should >> >install all files writable so that this problem is avoided. >> >> Actually previous versions of setup install files as writable, also. > >Unfortunately, I'm still concerned that setup may not install the >correct file because the extraction is dependent on the order in >which tar.gz files are found. From setup.c, we have: As DJ has noted, setup does not do version checking. It does try hard to make sure that files are writable, though. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com