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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:15:14 +0100
From: Chris Taylor <chris AT equate DOT dyndns DOT org>
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Subject: Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced
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Herb Martin wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>>Herb Martin wrote:
>>
>>>So what is the method to teach Setup that the file has been updated.
>>
>>Have you tried simply uninstalling the Cygwin package? If you 
>>installed the new one into another location, you presumably 
>>don't need or want the other one. For most packages at least, 
>>SETUP doesn't automatically try to update it if you haven't 
>>installed it.
>>
> 
> 
> I didn't install Exim 4.54 into another location;
> someone else mentioned an alternate locationa and
> I (perhaps incorrectly) mentioned that I had downloaded
> and compiled it FROM another location.
> 
> The "make install" was run normally and the specially
> compiled (make options) is in the default (/usr/bin)
> location.
> 
> All I wish to do is make Setup aware of this if it
> is possible.  
> 
> For now, I must (carefully) ensure that setup doesn't
> overwrite my "good" version with the default.

If you reinstalled all of exim, you don't really need the cygwin
version.. So you want to edit the /etc/setup/installed.db and give it an
artificially high number, say 99.999, as the installed version of exim.
This will stop cygwin from ever overwriting your installation of exim
(unless the version ever gets higher than that.. unlikely in our
lifetimes to be honest)

Chris

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