On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:53:27PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:09:11PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> >>>expat-1.95.3 was buggy and is no longer available at sourceforge, >>>so please do delete the Cygwin release too. >>> >> >>Deleted. >> >Corinna has inadvertantly discovered a bug in setup 2.259.2.4. I had >expat-1.95.3 installed on my machine and desired to upgrade to the new >release. I decided that, since it was uploaded so recently, I should >verify the contents on my mirror of choice. I just checked the >setup.ini file on mirrors.rcn.net. It contained an entry for the new >expat-1.95.4 with the proper directory path. I examined the files at >the path specified, and they turned out to be the correct version and >md5 sums. I have attached a png of the dialogue for your reference >regarding the upcoming explination. Ok, I fire up setup.exe, point it >to rcn.net, and click "View" once so that it displays all the packages. >I then scroll down to expat, only to find it saying "Keep". I click >"Keep" thinking I might get the new version, but instead it cycles to >"Uninstall". I click again, it cycles back to "Keep". So apparently >setup.exe doesn't like it when the previous package is deleted from the >mirrors. Also, the same behaviour can be seen with the _PostInstallLast >package. The machine involved is running WindowsME. Just thought I'd >give a heads up.
Packages get deleted all of the time. I had no problem installing either expat or _PostInstallLast just seconds ago. cgf
