RE: cygwin archive? (previous versions for fallback)

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Polley Christopher W wrote:

> >From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu]
> >On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >
> >> [snip]
> >> However, Cygwin setup.exe's cache should have all previous versions
> >> installed including PostgreSQL unless one deletes them.  Hence, the old
> >> PostgreSQL version should still have been available for the pg_dump
> >> phase.
> >>   Jason
> >
> >Not if it's not present in the newly downloaded setup.ini, I don't
> >think...
>
> No, unless the user takes steps to clean out the download directory (with
> Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl script, for example) all previously
> downloaded tarballs persist.
>
> Being able to installing one of those previous tarballs with setup is
> another story, though.

That's what I meant.  I was kinda replying to the second sentense, but not
the first.  Sorry for being unclear.

> One way that I know of is to force setup to put the packages of interest
> into the Misc category.
> Regards,
> Chris

That's good to know, thanks.
	Igor
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