Re: Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe

2002-01-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And a question: Wouldn't it make sense to uninstall first on Reinstall, too? It doesn't do this already? Hmm. I would expect a reinstall to be equivalent to an uninstall/install, yes. cgf

Re: Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe

2002-01-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:41:19PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And a question: Wouldn't it make sense to uninstall first on Reinstall, too? It doesn't do this already? Hmm. I would expect a reinstall to be equivalent to an

Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe

2002-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've found a problem in setup.exe which potentially results in two symlinks with the same name. As you know, the default setting for symlinks in Cygwin is using Windows shortcuts while setup.exe always creates symlinks as the old-style system files. Now imagine the following simple situation -