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Re: [1.7] gcc-3.4.4-3 gets reinstalled every time I run setup
- From: Fergus <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- To: Cygwin ML <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: Fergus <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:52:33 +0000
- Subject: Re: [1.7] gcc-3.4.4-3 gets reinstalled every time I run setup
>> setup sees the package as new, and reinstalls it, every time.
> At least it is in the category of annoying but harmless; you aren't
missing any files necessary for gcc to work correctly.
Also dummy upgrade packages and install helpers are repeatedly
re-installed unless laboriously un-checked during setup. I got so fed up
with this that I dis-interred good old setup.exe v.2.510.2.2 (standing
head and shoulders above other versions of setup.exe before or since),
temporarily renamed setup-2.ini to setup.ini and release-2 to release,
and ran this version of setup on the [1.7] provision. Then recovered old
names.
The effect of this trick was as required: at last the page of annoying
nags to re-install material already installed on [1.7] has disappeared,
and when there's nothing new to install, setup doesn't pretend otherwise.
I think, but haven't checked, that the reason for this useful capability
might be that old setup.exe v.2.510.2.2 writes more fully to
/etc/setup/installed.db than either of the current v.2.573.2.3 or the
experimental [1.7] v.2.609. Even if this is not the reason, the old
version keeps much better track - somewhere? - of an installation
history than subsequent versions. It is possible that some of this
useful functionality could be recovered for a future version?
Fergus
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