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: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:25:08 -0400 From: Jon LaBadie To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: setup overwriting ?experimental? installed packages Message-ID: <20020809182508.GB26049@butch.jgcomp.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jon LaBadie , cygwin@cygwin.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i I must be missing something obvious, yell (as I know you will) if so. When I've installed something newer than "current", like perl 5.8 or gcc 3.x, each time I use the setup program I have to make sure to individually mark each of those packages as "keep" or they will be replaced by the "current" packages, like perl 5.6 or gcc 2.95. This is time-consuming, error-prone, and frustrating. What have I missed? How to say generically "I want what I've already got left alone". -- Jon H. LaBadie jcyg@jgcomp.com JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- 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/