Christopher Faylor wrote: >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. > What version of setup were you using? My report involves the snapshot, not the release version.
Cheers, Nicholas
