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On 23/03/2012 6:19 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I would like to keep Perl 5.14 and lighttpd 1.4.18 installed on my
> Cygwin system, but every time I run setup.exe Perl 5.10 and lighttpd
> 1.4.20 are automatically installed (I often forget to change the
> versions back). Is there some way I can fix the versions I want? I
> can't find anything on this in the setup.exe documentation or Cygwin
> FAQ.
Well, the sledgehammer approach would be to set the radio button 
top-right to 'keep', but then setup.exe won't offer to install 
*anything* new automatically (you can still request specific upgrades on 
top of that). Unfortunately, I don't know of anything more nuanced. In 
your particular case, I'd just put that manually built lighttp first in 
PATH and forget about the cygwin version until it gets updated. I've got 
several packages like that, which alternate between home-brew and 
official over the years -- usually when my need for new features 
outstrips the update rate.

Ryan


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