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From: Chuck <skilover AT softhome DOT net>
Subject:  Re: Installer option?
Date:  Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:02:01 -0400
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Eric Blake wrote:
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>>Is there a way to permanently tell the setup.exe program NOT to update
>>my version of findutils? Recent versions do not traverse the registry if
>>they encounter *'s in key names. The version I have (4.1.7-4) does.
>>Everytime I want to update cygwin though I have to manually tell it to
>>leave findutils alone.
> 
> 
> This was fixed in a snapshot (and it was not so much the * character
> in key names as a bug in open() on virtual directories).  Otherwise,
> you can wait for cygwin-1.5.19 when it is ready, and findutils-4.2.25
> when it is released upstream.  In the meantime, sorry, there is no
> way to force setup.exe to automatically not upgrade a file when a
> newer version is available - it is a manual process every time you
> run setup. :(
> 
> --
> Eric Blake
> 
> 
> 

Thanks. Do you know which snapshot has it?
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