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From: "Ronald Landheer" <info AT rlsystems DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Slight problem with setup.exe utility
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:25:03 +0200
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Hello all,

I've installed Cygwin quite a while ago, but as I had a severe computer 
crash yesterday, I had to re-install both Windows and cygwin from 
scratch. I had some old downloads lying around, in which the cygwin 
tarball was called cygwin-1.3.2-1.tar.gz while it is now called cygwin-
1.3.2-1.tar.bz2. I don't know what the reason of the filename change is 
- as there is no version change here, but it confuses the setup utility: 
it does not say that my cygwin is old, but it refuses to unpack because 
the .bz2 file doesn't exist.

To be on the safe side, I renamed the old tarball and ran setup again - 
in stead of just editing the setup.ini file, which was the first thought 
that crossed my mind.

Because I'm in the process of installing cygwin now, I can't quite start 
digging into the setup code (yet), but there are probably more capable 
people for this anyway (i.e. its authors). In any case, the setup 
utility seems to be behaving properly: the versioning algorithm does 
exactly what it's supposed to do. The error is a human one, isn't it?

Just thought y'all might like to know..

Greetz!

Ronald

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