Thomas, > I've been watching with interest all this work on packaging the > Xfree/XWin > stuff. Now that it appears to be a reality, what do you > recommend for those > of us who already have Xfree installed via the "old" method? > > I for one would like to move over the the Cygwin package method > becaused I > like being able to into the Cygwin setup program to see what's changed. > However, I'm a little hesitant to go installing the new packages until I > understand what the impact on my existing setup might be.
You have an excellent point. Unfortunately, the answer is, "I don't know". I haven't yet tried installing Cygwin/XFree86 via setup.exe overtop of an existing Cygwin/XFree86 installation. I'd like to know what happens, but I'm not sure that I would recommend doing it. I think the recommended course of action is to move /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 to backup directories and install Cygwin/XFree86 via setup.exe. Be sure that the new Cygwin/XFree86 installation works and that you have copied over any modified files, etc. to the new directories, then get rid of the old directories. I have to do this all the time during development on Cygwin/XFree86. Here are the commands I use: mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6_works mv /etc/X11 /etc/X11_works Hope that helps, Harold
