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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject: RE: New setup.exe release candidate - please test
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:19:38 -0600
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Installed the latest coreutils OK.

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Gary R. Van Sickle
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Max Bowsher
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:29 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: New setup.exe release candidate - please test
> 
> Version 2.459
> 
>  - Repair the broken detection of wrongly-sized package files.
> 
>  - Fix setup keeping open handles to every tarball it 
> installs during a run.
> 
>  - Fix a miscellany of error-reporting deficiencies.
> 
>  - Close stdin, to protect against rogue postinstall scripts 
> attempting to
>    wait for user input.
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.459.exe
> 
> Also, this release appears in my testing to fix the hang when 
> a new install-everything setup is attempted, as side-effect 
> of other bugfixes.
> 
> Please test - if no regressions are discovered in the next 
> few days, it will be promoted to the release version, 
> accessible from the cygwin.com main page.
> 
> Max.
> 
> 
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