On 16 August 2010 06:32, Dave Korn wrote: > On 16/08/2010 05:40, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 16 August 2010 04:25, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >>> setup CVS HEAD (2.717) does not download test: releases in either >>> Install from Internet and Download Without Installing modes. >>> >>> I found this out by trying to install gcc4-*-4.5.0-1; after selecting >>> the 4.5.0-1 versions of gcc4-*, they did not show up in the Pending >>> view, nor were they downloaded or installed. However, setup did >>> uninstall my 4.3.4-3, leaving me without *any* gcc. :-( >> >> You need to manually tick the 'Bin?' box when selecting the >> experimental version. It's a longer-standing issue: >> >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-06/msg00145.html >> >> Another annoyance in this area is that once you do have an >> experimental package installed, setup.exe always tries to downgrade >> you back to the current one. > > Another problem is that the dependencies don't work: if you select the test > versions of a bunch of the language compilers, they don't cause the test > versions of the related runtime libs to get automatically selected.
I downgraded back to 2.701 to see whether that worked with instant dependency selection: it didn't. Phew, not a regression. I guess the quick way to a consistent gcc-4.5 install is to just click the 'Exp' button, although of course that drags in any other experimental packages too. > On the other hand, setup is no longer trying to automatically downgrade the > test packages any more. It still does that for me, but once all experimental packages are installed anyway, the 'Exp' button is an easy workaround. > But on the down side, it won't let me manually > downgrade them either. I had to uninstall all the 4.5.0 version packages in > one step and then reinstall 4.3.4 in a second run through setup.exe. I can't reproduce that. I tried upgrading to g++-4.5 and back to 4.3.4 and it worked. Andy
