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John Emmas wrote:
> That might have been the case at first but I've been following the
> instructions very carefully for at least the past 2 weeks.  You never
> replied to my question about step 6 though (is it a "one time" command or do
> I have to type this every time I perform an update?)  I've been typing it in
> every time.

All the steps must be followed in order every time setup.exe is run.

> Thanks Dave.  The only problem with that is that things can get selected
> without your knowledge.  So you need to check every single item every time
> you want to install even just one package.  Or is this what Yaakov meant
> above?  Does the long shell command (step 6 on the homepage) somehow
> stop the 'automatic selection' process?  I did recently do two installations
> in rapid succession (5 mins apart) and didn't re-type it in between
> them - but that's the only time recently when I omitted a step.

As Dave indicated, if two repositories provide the same package,
setup.exe looks at the setup.ini timestamps to determine which is newer.
 Step 6 forces setup.exe to consider the Ports repository as newer.


Yaakov
Cygwin Ports
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