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On 2/21/2012 2:18 PM, Michel Bardiaux wrote:

> I suppose we'll never know what began the problem. Still, cygcheck
> should NOT have reported 1.7.10-1 as OK when it was not...

cygcheck verifies only that all the files reported on

/etc/setup/cygwin.lst.gz exist.

It have no way to detect a wrong version of any file


> Michel Bardiaux
> ---------------

the problem began as you had some cygwin process running
when you tried the upgrade.
Close all the programs and stop all the services before any
upgrade, window is not very good on replacing file in use
and it could likely fail.

Marco

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