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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:33:02 +0100
From: Alan Hourihane <alanh AT fairlite DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:22:08AM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:41:04 +0100 Alan Hourihane <alanh AT fairlite DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> 
> > I'm using 2.194.2.24 and when I go through "Download from Internet"
> > and download the "new" components. It downloads them fine.
> > 
> > Next, I re-run setup.exe and I go through "Download from Internet" again,
> > (but this was by accident) and it says that the same files are ready
> > to be downloaded and proceeds to re-download them all again.
> 
> I think this is because you haven't installed the packages yet.  I think
> setup.exe gets the current version information from the installed
> package not the download directory.

This isn't the way it used to work, and shouldn't in my opinion.

setup.exe should know what it's downloaded and not installed.

Alan.

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