On 7/5/07, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > I am using the version of setup.exe that just came out (2.573.2.2). > > FYI, this is not a new problem. > > > When I put just the sunsite.dk site in for cygwin-ports only, it works > > as expected. Although if I delete all of my cached setup data, I get > > a message that the setup.ini is older than the last one I used. > > > > If I put any other repository in place, it tells me that a large > > number of my applications are an older version even though the version > > numbers are, in fact, more recent. > > setup.exe blindly assumes that the packages in the newer setup.ini are > themselves newer, without looking at the package versions. > > This is the workaround: > > 1) If necessary, update from the official distro by "Download Without > Installing" from a listed mirror. > > 2) Run setup.exe again and "Download Without Installing" ONLY from > Cygwin Ports. > > 3) Run the following command: > sed -i -e "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: `date +%s`@" \ > /path/to/ftp%3a%2f%2fsunsite.dk%2fprojects%2fcygwinports/setup.ini > > 4) Run setup.exe once more and "Install from Local Directory". > > > Yaakov > Cygwin Ports > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGjarepiWmPGlmQSMRCAXZAJ9eeid4o+iyCptHxrFSO+JDNAkCVgCeLFgN > NmRJ3AbDY97kztCYqmE8LDk= > =+rGq
This mostly worked. The only package that still wanted to downgrade was fontconfig. Thanks for the instructions though. I'm glad the fix is relatively easy that I could do on my own. -Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
