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Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:44:17 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54
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In-Reply-To: <3B105731.A3E5DAB6@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:24:02PM -0400

On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:24:02PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>"Fred T. Hamster" wrote:
>>   is the official installation process now involving a bunch of registry
>> edits before cygwin can be installed again, or is this setup program
>> actually quite busted?
>
>It appears that the new setup program is not operating correctly for
>SOME users.  This may be because setup itself is broken, or because the
>affected users have some wierdness in their local machine.
>
>In my case, I just used the new setup.exe to update a pre-existing
>install (that is, I used it to install the most recent inetutils,
>openssh, and python packages -- I already had older versions of those
>packages installed).
>
>It worked flawlessly.

Prediction:  It will work flawlessly for every person who is remotely
capable of debugging it.

The problems with weird directories being created sounds a lot like
random memory corruption.  Wish I could reproduce it.

Maybe I should try building it with electric fence or something.

cgf

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