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Re: Understanding versions of apps in cygwin suite
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 03:26:38PM +0000, Andrew Hancock wrote:
>Thanks, Marco. I posted on another thread asking whether it was wise to update
>Octave without updating the cygwin DLL. Updating the cygwin DLL using Setup is
>actually downgrading, since I currently use a snapshot of the cygwin DLL to get
>around a problem with creating files/folders on a network drive (unrelated to
>Octave).
I don't see how setup.exe could downgrade cygwin1.dll if you have
previously installed Cygwin 1.7.9. setup.exe relies on package metadata
to determine when to replace a package and you don't touch that when you
download a snapshot and copy it to the correct location.
cgf
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