Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3C04ABBF.8020904@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 04:17:51 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Collins CC: Polley Christopher W , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: setup.exe selects old versions for required packages References: <718198F862F1D411B10F0002A50A4DB101A4F0B1@e90wwce3.dx.deere.com> <1006937706.712.21.camel@lifelesswks> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Collins wrote: > Yes, but we took the one-step at a time approach. Please note that a > version requirement will NOT solve the vim/gettext confusion. That > confusion was caused because setup doesn't check for file conflicts, and > in not checking for them, cannot take appropriate action (in this case, > upgrading the old package first, which would fix the conflict and > prevent the .dll getting inappropriately deleted). Maybe I am having a thinko, but I don't remember any file conflict in the gettext package. ncurses(old)-->ncurses(new)+libncurses* had an "inappropriate .dll deletion" problem if you don't do things in the right order -- but I don't remember anything like that with gettext. Help? --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/