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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To: "Paul Butcher" <paul DOT butcher AT asa DOT co DOT uk>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <E17Rudz-0000SM-00 AT bentley DOT asa DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Setup.exe problem from local directory
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:37:06 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Butcher" <paul DOT butcher AT asa DOT co DOT uk>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:03 PM
Subject: Setup.exe problem from local directory


> (Tried to post this to cygwin-apps as requested by mailing list home page
but
> cannot as this is a controlled list.)

Did you try to subscribe? Thats what the warning message would have said to
do!

> I've had a problem with the latest setup.exe V2.249.2.5 installing from
local
> directory which I've never seen before and can't seem to get around:
>
> I downloaded several packages that I wanted to update into a local
directory
> (as I always do) then run setup.exe - I selected all the packages to
update -
> it then uninstalled the old versions OK BUT then tried to uninstall the
new
> versions too!  Of course it reported 'null' files for each and I ended up
> with all these packages uninstalled!

Setup.exe shouldn't have let you update the packages if it couldn't read the
files in advance. How did you download the packages? Did

> Now rerunning setup it won't show any package in setup.ini except those
I've
> already got installed so I can't select installation of any new packages.

Even in the 'full' list? Sounds like it's not finding your setup.ini in your
local package dir.

Rob


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