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: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:26:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Jon A. Lambert" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Hack: fixing broken coreutils install (Was Re: coreutils-5.3.0-8: lost *.exe) In-Reply-To: <029f01c58711$a479b2c0$0200000a@agamemnon> Message-ID: References: <029f01c58711$a479b2c0$0200000a@agamemnon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jon A. Lambert wrote: > I have coreutils-5.2.1-5 sitting here in my releases directory but setup > won't let me select it. How the heck do I get back to a working version > of coreutils. You should at least be able to select the "prev" version (which is 5.2.1-5). If you want to get back to 5.3.0-7, the simplest workaround is "cp coreutils-5.3.0-7.tar.bz2 coreutils-5.3.0-8.tar.bz2" and reinstall 5.3.0-8. Stay tuned for 5.3.0-9. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/