X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4525AF42.6050303@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:20:02 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Reverting to older Cygwin installation? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com mwoehlke wrote: > I've been keeping up with the new make, bash, etc, on my own desktop, > but I'd like to try updating our build machine's packages to see if we > can get some speed out of the new bash release. However, this being a > build machine, breaking it would be *bad*. > > I *want* to say I can downgrade (not uninstall and reinstall, downgrade) > to the exact configuration we had by backing up the local install > directory and - if needed - re-installing from there, but can someone > confirm that this will (or at least "should") work? > Well you should at the very least be able to restore the original state by removing your Cygwin installation and installing from the local download directory, assuming it hasn't been changed in any way and that the packages there represented the totality of what you have installed currently. If in doubt, install it on a clean machine and poke around with the result. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/