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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:59:52 -0400
Message-Id: <200010111659.MAA12187@envy.delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
To: enolte@campuspipeline.com
CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
In-reply-to: <003901c03341$1d048460$c4acb018@home.com>
	(enolte@campuspipeline.com)
Subject: Re: Setup strangeness
References:  <003901c03341$1d048460$c4acb018@home.com>


> How does setup figure out what is installed?  The
> /etc/setup/installed.db only shows packages that setup let us
> install.

/etc/setup/installed.db is the only place where setup keeps track of
what it already has installed.  Simply removing the fileutils line,
for example, lets you re-install fileutils.

However, if setup doesn't give you an "uninstall" option for
fileutils, then it may not be installed at all.  Look in
setup.log.full for the details of what happened.

> Any ideas?  Also, where's the source to setup?  I didn't see it on
> ftp://sources.redhat.com.

It's in with the cygwin sources, in src/winsup/cinstall.


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