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Subject: Re: How does setup.exe cope with upgrading of already installed packages if there exist modification in installed files?
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:05:01 -0500
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On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 13:08 -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > To complete the set, package maintainers have to separately include a
> > > simple preremove script, e.g.
> > 
> > Actually, cygport handles (2) as well.  No further intervention should
> > be necessary once make_etc_defaults is called.
> 
> I was hoping you'd say that.  New feature in the last year or two?

New?  Not really, 12 March 2009 to be exact (commit 81b56eb).


Yaakov



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