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: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:12:00 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20040802.tar.bz2 contains extra files? Message-ID: <20040809031200.GA30809@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040808210000.GA2556@efn.org> <20040809005932.GA27445@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20040809020018.GA2692@efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040809020018.GA2692@efn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 07:00:18PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:59:32PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:00:00PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> >I downloaded and installed >> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20040802.tar.bz2 >> > >> >and was a bit surprised to see that it included files normally in the >> >w32api and mingw-runtime packages as well as a few other files (and >> >/bin/dumper.exe which is normally in the cygwin package was missing). >> >> dumper missing is a problem. The extra files are not. > >Ok, I can live with that. It does seem to me that it creates a >problem further down the line: if one installs a snapshot and later >upgrades to the next version of the cygwin package, cygcheck would not >report anything to indicate that what is installed is in any way >non-standard. If this creates a problem for you then it sounds like you definitely should not be using snapshots. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/