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RE: New setup.exe release candidate - please test
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:19:38 -0600
- Subject: RE: New setup.exe release candidate - please test
Installed the latest coreutils OK.
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Gary R. Van Sickle
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Max Bowsher
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:29 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: New setup.exe release candidate - please test
>
> Version 2.459
>
> - Repair the broken detection of wrongly-sized package files.
>
> - Fix setup keeping open handles to every tarball it
> installs during a run.
>
> - Fix a miscellany of error-reporting deficiencies.
>
> - Close stdin, to protect against rogue postinstall scripts
> attempting to
> wait for user input.
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.459.exe
>
> Also, this release appears in my testing to fix the hang when
> a new install-everything setup is attempted, as side-effect
> of other bugfixes.
>
> Please test - if no regressions are discovered in the next
> few days, it will be promoted to the release version,
> accessible from the cygwin.com main page.
>
> Max.
>
>
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