X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Patrick Strasser Subject: Re: Installing an old version of a package Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:10:51 +0200 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Igor Peshansky schrieb: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Patrcik Strasser wrote: Igor, thanks for the explanation! >> Can anyone give me a hint how to install this package in a cygwin style? >> Any command line tool like dpkg or rpm for this? > > No command-line tools[*], but you can do the following: > > 1) Download the package to some subdirectory of your Cygwin package cache > directory, e.g., C:\install\Cygwin\custom. > 2) Setup should be smart enough to infer the version, but, just to make > sure, you can create a custom setup.ini with that one package in it, > setting 'curr' to the version you want (i.e., 2.4). See > for an example of > such a setup.ini (except you'd need one with a "python" package). > 3) Tell setup to "Install from local directory". That should let you > select 2.4, and setup will install it. I got it working fine: I modified 2) and 3): 1) I downloaded the old package, created a new directory and put the package file there. 2) In Setup, I chose "Install from local directory" 3) When asked for the Local Package Directory I chose the newly created directory with my package file 4) I the package selection view I got as only category "Misc", with the new package already selected. NOTE: Just adding a directory in the Local Package Directory and putting the package there did not work! Maybe this procedure should be added to the FAQ entry. Patrick -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two Patrick Strasser Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria -- 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/