A suggestion for another setup feature: When upgrading package foo requires reinstallation of package bar afterwards, figuring that out and then doing it.
Thanks for all the good work. - Barry -----Original Message----- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old > versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old pdksh.exe got > unlinked), and then installs the new versions (creating new files, > essentially). It never did overwrite the file in-place. Changing this > will probably involve radical modifications to setup's internal logic. Not that big a change actually - we already have the concept of upgrading internally, it just needs to be taught that an upgrade isn't an uninstall + install, but rather an unpack followed by removing files no longer present in the package. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
