At 09:58 AM 7/10/01 +0100, you wrote:
>The win4lin installer still seems to have some silly features:-
>
>1) The other day I fired up installer 3.0.3 and downloaded the latest
>installer 3.0.4. Though 3.0.4 ran the first time (ie straight after
>downloading) OK, it put itself in /var/win4lin/installer_tmp leaving the
>old version in /usr/bin. (Which of course took precedence until renamed)
I've not been able to reproduce this problem with this version of the
installer.
A few versions ago, this was common.
>2) More significantly, believing that an update of Win4lin from 5.2.4d-d
>was imminent, when the installer has said a Win4lin upgrade is available
>I've taken it - only to be landed with a download of 5.2.4 again!
>
>I've done this 3 times now with the same results. I've copied my
>original copy of 5.2.4 back from 'a safe place' and touched it, but
>still got the same behaviour. (How _does_ the installer check which
>version is already installed, so I can stop this spurious download)
The current RPM is 5.2.4d-d which is Win4Lin 3.0.4.
As a side note: For those who have a hard time obtaining the latest RPM
with the installer,
it currently lives in /pub/win4lin/Win4Lin-3.0
>3) Of course all this is to try to get round another silly problem - we
>don't know (eg via this group) when a new package is released or/and
>what's changed in it - and the installer doesn't deign to tell us what
>it wants to download... So we have to let it start on a 4Mb download and
>then look at the filename!
I will take the blame for this one, this one time only. I was going
to post it's availability yesterday. Then I learned there will likely be
another
update fix this week (v3.0.5). I chose to wait to make an announcement.
What does it fix.
Version 3.0.4 fixes some performance issues with IE. IE fails to stops
loading pages,
images and becomes slow after a period of prolonged use on 2.4.x kernel
systems.
Version 3.0.5 will address overall performance issues that have been
reported on this list,
This is also only affects people running kernel 2.4.x.
The fact that the installer doesn't give an update and easy reference to
release
notes is a problem. Is it the biggest problem we have? Not by a long shot, and
we can only fix one problem at a time. This is one of those issues
that lives towards the top of the list, but had a hard time making
it to the top. This is coming. Should be in the next installer release or so.
Mike
>Bob
>
>(I'm sure it makes slightly more sense if you run a bog-standard Redhat
>system and/or have a fast ISDN line on a 7/24 connection.
>
>But the rest of us would like to have more control over our lives -
>that's why we're using Linux).
>--
>robert w hall
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