X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B1E66C3.1050607@etr-usa.com> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:46:27 -0700 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: General questions about upgrading to 1.7 References: <20091208124500.GB10816@ghost> <20091208121908.GD8059@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20091208121908.GD8059@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 8 13:45, d.sastre.medina@gmail.com wrote: >> I'm plannig to migrate my production env (i.e. my XPSP3 box at work >> 8-D), from 1.5.25 to 1.7 as soon as there is an official release, > > There's no reason not to use the current beta. True. Many of us have been using it for serious work for months now. I migrated in February or so, and every problem I've had is now months in the past. > If you want to be on the safe side, install Cygwin 1.7 into another > directory, for instance C:\cygwin-1.7. ...and be sure to tell it the new directory name on the *first* run of setup-1.7.exe, yea even on the first visit to that screen. There's a point beyond that screen and before you exit setup.exe where you all but irrevocably convert an existing 1.5 install to a 1.7 one. You don't even have to actually start the install process; just going deep enough into the wizard with it believing you want to upgrade in place is enough. Personally, I'd just back that directory *and* all the Cygwin registry sub-trees up and go ahead with the upgrade-in-place. Parallel Cygwin installs work, but there are annoyances. Given your evident conservatism (XP SP3), I hope you have a concrete reason for upgrading Cygwin. If not, there's apparently a philosophical mismatch somewhere. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple