Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:49:45 +0100 Message-ID: <1998-Thu09Aug2001094946+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Gary R Van Sickle" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: tar 'mini'-bug In-Reply-To: <001501c12052$be449fa0$2101a8c0@nomad> References: <8F23E55D511AD5119A6800D0B76FDDE1CA3018@cpex3.channelpoint.com> <001501c12052$be449fa0$2101a8c0@nomad> On Wednesday 8 Aug 01, Gary R Van Sickle writes: > > Isn't setup.exe able to upgrade cygwin1.dll in place? > > Not to the snapshots according to the FAQ. Hang on, let me try it though... > nope. You can't use setup.exe to install snapshots, but the FAQ does include instructions for installing snapshots "manually". The instructions carefully avoid using cygwin tar to update cygwin1.dll. Hope this helps. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/