Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3C6810EE.6080202@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:43:58 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How does setup.exe (without setup.ini) distinguish between different versions of the same file? References: <000901c1b305$fff8fa40$6fc82486 AT medschool DOT dundee DOT ac DOT uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote: > > 1. setup.exe tries to install ash 20011018-1 not 20020131-1 > 2. setup.exe tries to install automake-devel 1.5b-1 not 1.5-5 > 3. setup.exe tries to install gdb 20010428-1 not 20010428-3 > 4. setup.exe tries to install libtool-devel 20010531-6 not 20020202-1 #1, #3, #4: IIRC, the currently distributed setup.exe had some problems: it defaulted to the "PREV" version instead of the "CURR" version. #2: 1.5b is marked as a "TEST" version -- but it IS newer than 1.5-5. However, since you specify that you don't have a setup.ini file, there's no way for your setup.exe to know that. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/