On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:31:45 -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to
build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the zip
tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install
zip. Well,
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Subject: Cygwin installing too much stuff
I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I
typically use
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Setup by default tries to bring any
already-installed package up/back to the curr version. Not only does it
update old stuff, but if you have any exp releases installed, it'll
actually try to downgrade them back to curr. Yeah, that's not too cool.
If you want to
Lionel B wrote:
To give an example, I have installed the exp gcc 3.4.1 and mingw-gcc 20040822
packages. Now I see I have libtool-devel
1.9f_20041024 installed, whreas setup wants to change that to 1.5.10. I
suspect, but am not sure, that this is a
dependancy of my exp gcc and should
Brian Dessent wrote:
Lionel B wrote:
/.../
If you want to keep one or more packages at Exp versions this is the
method I use:
First thing you do after running setup each time, switch to partial.
You will see a combination of Exp packages that setup wants to downgrade
to Curr, mixed
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to
build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the zip
tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install
zip. Well, instead of doing just that, it also started
Lionel B wrote:
To give an example, I have installed the exp gcc 3.4.1 and mingw-gcc 20040822
packages. Now I see I have libtool-devel
1.9f_20041024 installed, whreas setup wants to change that to 1.5.10. I
suspect, but am not sure, that this is a
dependancy of my exp gcc and should therefore
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
It is irritating because I'm on a dialup, and I just wanted
to grab the small zip tool and keep going with my real
work. Instead I'm waiting waiting waiting waiting on piles
of downloads that I'm too lazy to go in and figure out.
Well...
I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to
build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the zip
tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install
zip. Well, instead of doing just that, it also started installing
Ruby, and TeTex,
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to
build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the zip
tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install
zip. Well, instead of doing just that, it also
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:31:45PM -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
- is Cygwin pushing new versions of stuff I previously downloaded?
Yes.
cgf
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