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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:58:10 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Now that the new setup is here...
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:53:28AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:10 AM
>
>> The only thing I can think of to do is to get rid of 
>> latest/contrib and move to something else, like 'release', 
>> with all of the current directories located underneath.
>
>Sounds good to me.
> 
>> AFAIK, this won't cause any undue download activity will it?
>
>Well it shouldn't. There is definitely something wrong with setup and
>downloads at the moment, but I haven't tracked it down yet.

What about the "this page intentionally left blank" report?  Is that
on your list?

Btw, I had a strange experience yesterday after downloading bitkeeper
for Windows.  I had a hunch that it was using cygwin, and it does appear
to be.  It actually gets around the GPL issue (somewhat) by running
cygwin setup (and old version, I think) from it's own setup process.

In the process, it also reset some of my mount points to my c:
drive from my f: drive.  I didn't notice this for half an hour and
couldn't figure out why setup kept insisting on downloading things
that I knew were already installed.

I could only find one binary that was linked with cygwin -- patch.exe.
One other binary apparently mucked with cygwin's registry but there
was no obvious use of the DLL.

cgf