Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:18:40 -0400 To: cygwin Subject: Re: Problems with setup.exe Message-ID: <20000601101840.D15257@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <3935534C DOT 8265 DOT 3ADB45 AT localhost> <393606FD DOT 665CA606 AT rocketmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <393606FD.665CA606@rocketmail.com>; from vihs@rocketmail.com on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:17:25PM +0530 On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:17:25PM +0530, Shiv Kumar wrote: >I do a setup -u whenever I get a mail from cygwin-announce and I have not faced >this problem so fact. All my mounts are intact even after setup. You're using the default setup. setup.exe does not remove old mounts. It just tries to reset the mount table to a sane state before extracting. cgf >Before setup -u :- > > Device Directory Type Flags > D:\export\home\shiv /home user textmode > E:\download /download user textmode > D:\root\bin /usr/bin user binmode > D:\root\lib /usr/lib user binmode > D:\root / user binmode > >After setup -u :- > > Device Directory Type Flags > D:\export\home\shiv /home user textmode > E:\download /download user textmode > D:\root\bin /usr/bin user binmode > D:\root\lib /usr/lib user binmode > D:\root / user binmode > >Cheers. >-- >shiv >vihs AT rocketmail DOT com > >Tom Weichmann wrote: >>I know that setup.exe is a work in progress, and have heard that some >>major re-construction is under way, but I would like to know if there >>is a fix for this. Every time I update a package using setup -u foo >>setup reverts my mount table back to the default, and re-writes >>cygwin.bat deleting any modifications I have made. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com