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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:59:04 -0700
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced
Message-ID: <20051023165904.GA3148@efn.org>
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:15:14PM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote:
> 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)

Are you sure?  I didn't think setup actually compared versions at all.
There's been discussion on cygwin-apps of updating packages to a
"lower" version number that is actually a neweer version, and people
didn't seem to think there would be any problem with that...

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