X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:21:16 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: can I tell setup.exe NOT to upgrade a specific package from now on? In-Reply-To: <43D27ACC.D2BB9646@dessent.net> Message-ID: References: <43D24B0D.9070800@uk.om.org> <43D27ACC.D2BB9646@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > Urs Rau wrote: > > > Is there any mechanism at all where I can either tell setup.exe to > > ignore future versions of posgresql or else actually be as precise, as > > to tell it that I want to stay at version 7.x for now? > > No, sorry. It will try to install "curr" by default every time, > whatever version that happens to be. IIRC, if there are two "curr" versions, setup picks the one from the first setup.ini it encounters. I wonder, if there's a way to create a custom setup.ini file with the fixed version as "curr", and then ensure that it's found first, would setup keep it locked? In any case, I think I can whip up some quick and dirty code to do the locking in a day or so, but I think that may do more harm than good... To do this properly, setup should at least give warnings when a dependency of a locked version is updated. I'll send the patch in the next couple of days, but we shouldn't release a new version until the dependency checking is in place. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/