Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:20:12 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin] Message-ID: <20020406062012.GC12535@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:21:57AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David A. Cobb [mailto:superbiskit@cox.net] >> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:59 AM > >> > TODO >> > [..] >>>* Don't downgrade if the curr version is <= installed? >>> >>>Btw, this should apply to test too, I think. >>> >>I agree. It's annoying at best to install a group of test packages and >>then, the next time I run setup, if I don't watch carefully they would >>revert to the current. > >See the cygwin-apps thread started by cgf, about seeing the light. It >would solve this problem cleanly and permanently. I'm not sure how. If you're talking about my suggestion, if you switched to a test view and installed things, the next time you ran setup you'd still default to current so, I presume that setup would still suggest a downgrade. setup should probably *never* suggest either going backwards or uninstalling. cgf -- 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/