X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=Rcv55ON3D3xkW+v7 S66Yn9NlklCyrroU/+AUqNN5LSdzOsvKT0mU6L0jjqL+aS7vNNPa57+CvwuyfMUw OM3Lzrt0+/enZrdQQlyqXYya8g+i+MRHveN/DhieytyNf/TKRLOHJc+p4fiSgUgc LhPEJNVY5F9RHB/xPZiLDg4lv7A= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=tX2QTo4YOAWrOyxivhqSFT youMw=; b=vQdUZ9EXUyXEGtws+OU82GevTibWSu28YvBh74AnNmDajrnyTye7sh 5/JmmnfLZ0EmjgWOSYkE1BquMmxvm/fCydK6WhFGC9DLcuORzihZgnxLWec6Bqi6 g7hdnUHnP3CY7yXY2M1GO2U2+WuNn+TnrIKvm8XVMyRY+SQnEhLao= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173001pub.verizon.net Message-id: <52545966.9000404@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:13:42 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: baffling cygwin setup.exe behavior References: <20131008185241 DOT GA21581 AT plunk DOT org> In-reply-to: <20131008185241.GA21581@plunk.org> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 10/8/2013 2:52 PM, Don Hatch wrote: > So, as far as I can see, > the only way to get rcs 5.8.2-1 is to globally select "Curr" > and *don't click on rcs at all*. > So, to upgrade rcs and nothing else, > I'd have to globally select "Curr" > and manually change every package *except* rcs > to "Keep", leaving rcs alone. > That seemed like a lot of work and error prone, > and I knew I was going to be doing all this several times, > and who knows whether I'd run into other problems on the way. > So instead, I elected to upgrade > my entire system to "Curr", even though > that's not really what I wanted. > > If anyone can explain what's going on here > (is this a bug? or something wrong with my thinking?) > and how to do this simple operation, > I'd really appreciate it. I'm not sure why you cannot get back to 5.8.2-1. I can but I don't have 'rcs' installed so my cycle just goes from Skip-> 5.8.2-1->5.8.1-1->Skip->.... I guess if all else fails, try uninstalling and reinstalling 'rcs'. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple