CVS Setup will replace in-use files correctly (tested on NT only at this point) if the following predicates are true:
Any given file is only attempted to be replaced once. The last action on each file is NOT a delete. The drive letters on the next reboot are the same. Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Stipe Tolj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:21 AM > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: setup.exe command line options > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > > > I've made some progress, but it's still (infuriatingly) not > at the stage > > where you can do a whole installation without dialog boxes > (no offense - > > they're lovely dialog boxes!), but you can certainly have > *fewer* dialog > > boxes! > > Maybe cross-topic, but I'll try: > > I would like to see a command line option to setup.exe that can be > used to "update" the current installed packages from the same source. > I think of remoted update via setup.exe through a ssh session. > > Is this anyway possible? At least the cygwin core package has it's > problem I guess since cygwin1.dll needs to be replaced and several NT > services are running at that point?! > > So the question is: How to upgrade a remote Cygwin machine? I guess no > solution for now. > > Stipe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Wapme Systems AG > > Münsterstr. 248 > 40470 Düsseldorf > > Tel: +49-211-74845-0 > Fax: +49-211-74845-299 > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > wapme.net - wherever you are >
