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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:39:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: Setup.exe update problem
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In-Reply-To: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E041@IIS000>; from Dautrevaux@microprocess.com on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:51:10PM +0200

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:51:10PM +0200, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 7:45 PM
>> To: James Dumser
>> Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
>> Subject: Re: Setup.exe update problem
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:39:55PM -0500, James Dumser wrote:
>> >On Thu, 18 May 2000, 12:21:01 -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> >> 1) There should only be one cygwin file in latest and it should be
>> >>    'cygwin-1.1.1.tar.gz'. If setup installed two files, 
>> that probably
>> >>    means that you weren't installing from an empty directory.
>> >
>> >Okay, I did have the cygwin-2000*.tar.gz in the directory before
>> >issuing setup cygwin.  But setup clearly indicated it was downloading
>> >both 2000* and 1.1.1 then it proceeded to install 1.1.1 and 2000* (in
>> >that order).  Is this the behavior you'd expect just because there
>> >already happened to be a cygwin*.tar.gz file in the current 
>> directory?
>> 
>> I would expect both .tar.gz files to be installed yes.  That's why I
>> mentioned an "empty directory" in my setup instructions.
>> 
>> It's a bug in setup that I don't have time to fix right now.
>> It has to do with the fact that we changed the naming from 
>> cygwin-yyyymmdd
>> to cygwin-x.x.x.
>
>Could it be just that 2000xxxx sorted after 1 :-)

Take a look at the source code for setup.c.  It tries to handle this.
That's the bug.  I understand the problem now and I'll probably fix it
today.

cgf

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