X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:28:41 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update Message-ID: <20100301142841.GA5683@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B8BA03F.9090402@bonhard.uklinux.net> <20100301113255.GU5683@calimero.vinschen.de> <1267446859.1433.6.camel@vuurvlieg> <20100301124131.GX5683@calimero.vinschen.de> <1267453033.1433.67.camel@vuurvlieg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1267453033.1433.67.camel@vuurvlieg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Mar 1 15:17, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op maandag 01-03-2010 om 13:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Corinna > Vinschen: > > > Oops. That was never really correct. Already in the old Cygwin 1.5 > > setup.exe the leading dot path ignored the /usr/bin and /usr/lib > > mounts to /bin and /lib. > > Ouch. I did experience weird things at times, but also used > tar to install manually and blamed that. It's interesting that this has never been reported. When I screwed up in the same way, I got the report that the package has installed incorrectly mostly already the same day. Btw., can you please send the URLs to the new packages to cygwin-apps? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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