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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=eyG+TlDSttJFvUoW L/2DJQAJFovTXyQqOIfQ4vU+uQBP1wAEQwm/ZyEAJLBxAa1NLNKlo2gq+e+z6Mfw wngB0t9UXWgqiQNhB/nnj8KCJZ0Irk+T2cfG3EiiG5ki0ck1F3YqPzNBpa+AzGpi 8M6ixQScB8pOTsJXlH5gMeJSsdM= 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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=j/FkWAPP0hYhkOE85Vv8A+ vIlJw=; b=eu9M4umzMwPskODndjEKiSX/VF0HmJtEv493KuyGi32q7FkfBn0Zr/ 907LMCc5cm3WSZL0ZpVD0VIVcCE/4mxhy7BeHQcWIrmPw8Sehv3jEvogFd7YfgqT EHRyL86VGqqnWUgWGiyK4aovuHiJlUFJZ56+lQEsUv6Ho2mXaQJpo= 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-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sometime, conduent, Conduent, H*MI:sk:0D835E9 X-HELO: mail-lf0-f43.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nnrxH+6QyjPJ4/vnTxYfAHaEG0La69Vbsv1uOkr0nUU=; b=ArU0DJEs7VG4qc0CcKT3zKf59/iLlvY/C9duXVumY7N6MmR40ws6rHNB4KZ3P9KsF0 ac53Qv5PbaO67Rf1Mlf4x8PhbaV2CmMCm2RqLH3U2kkrqu836PgSO4AvwDK/Jlxs+blv DAcMyuiIlms52nkGodcsNgkZptZBcAxfXgwMzSIA/fT9B7LUTIlG74DLGfHL892DpqU/ 6PrMUneQxqcbV9tUzVTVd5eEqoHI4/h+7VgsPlRfnkGx9mKWRCvXpa++CAOwxiTiMhq3 NOdSnEBXl18NHl+5fFb8GXsWC3gCXCy/XwZeJDhxc63tGW5VW73e9wSHVY7vffOI30Mn m2fg== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXJVBslF197QcWm3Ut/OrBl2b1YgDs3eu0b0ttdO50TI0ifSVVn0Dhv4YedQ5Ax8rw== X-Received: by 10.25.87.211 with SMTP id l202mr12964977lfb.137.1484662920507; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 06:22:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: sincerely beg your help!!! for getting version 2.6.0-1 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <2eb70330-06ef-2f15-6267-55ce02dba225 AT gmail DOT com> <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBDBCC1 AT USA7109MB022 DOT na DOT xerox DOT net> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <219d2249-7e83-72b1-50f1-19a49215d0d2@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:21:49 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBDBCC1@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 17/01/2017 15:09, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > From: Marco Atzeri >> On 17/01/2017 13:42, sun zheng wrote: >>> hi team, >> >> As cygwin is a rolling distribution you can consider >> >> http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html#AHEM >> >> for an installation frozen in time. >> >> Regards >> Marco > > Maybe I'm missing something because I'm confused why Marco is suggesting > timemachine when setup.exe still offers version 2.6.0-1. Just click on > the package in the New column until it shows your version, then proceed > with the installation. > > --Ken Nellis > Hi Ken, two reasons: - he could need to install again sometime in the future, and than going back will not work. - some packages could use new features added by 2.6.1 and it will be a mess to understand which packages must be downgraded. Regards Marco -- 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