Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
content-class: urn:content-classes:message
Subject: RE: ncftp current release won't run - missing CYGREADLINE5.DLL
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="us-ascii"
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 23:41:28 +1000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3
Message-ID: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA76008AC31@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
X-MS-Has-Attach: 
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Gord Wait" <Gord_nospam_123_Wait AT netscape DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g34Dfh817051



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gord Wait [mailto:Gord_nospam_123_Wait AT netscape DOT net] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:48 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: ncftp current release won't run - missing 
> CYGREADLINE5.DLL
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry Robert,
> I lost the last word on the subject line when I posted the 
> email you read.
> 
> It turns out, no you can't just re run setup.exe on an 
> already installed cygwin and expect it to work. It might 
> delete a dll or two for you due to an install bug.

Care to send in your log files? We know of a specific bug which DOES NOT
affect the current setup.exe. (There was a race condition when packages
got renamed, and we now do all uninstalls before all upgrades before all
new installs to prevent this (or 99% of cases - it may not be perfect))
 
> The faq offers the solution of hunting down which packages 
> contain the dll files you are missing and re installing them.

And that aspect of the FAQ is still very useful, but for other causes -
ie if you chose to remove some packages for some reason, and then find
out that they where needed!
 
> I found it much easier last night to just wipe out the old 
> cygwin install, and local download storage (where you ran 
> setup from) completely and doing a full install.

That is about the hardest way around. A much easier way is simply to
change the little arrow beside "all" until the action is "reinstall",
and watch setup reinstall everything inplace, preserving all your
settings.

Rob

--
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/