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 Subject: Re: setup.exe selects old versions for required packages From: Robert Collins To: Polley Christopher W Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" In-Reply-To: <718198F862F1D411B10F0002A50A4DB101A4F0B1@e90wwce3.dx.deere.com> References: <718198F862F1D411B10F0002A50A4DB101A4F0B1@e90wwce3.dx.deere.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.99.2 (Preview Release) Date: 28 Nov 2001 19:55:01 +1100 Message-Id: <1006937706.712.21.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Nov 2001 08:56:32.0859 (UTC) FILETIME=[93C972B0:01C177EA] Most of this email has laready been addressed. On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 02:28, Polley Christopher W wrote: > Has a version requirement (similar to RPM) been considered to alleviate the > installation problems seen with vim/gettext? Yes, but we took the one-step at a time approach. Please note that a version requirement will NOT solve the vim/gettext confusion. That confusion was caused because setup doesn't check for file conflicts, and in not checking for them, cannot take appropriate action (in this case, upgrading the old package first, which would fix the conflict and prevent the .dll getting inappropriately deleted). Rob -- 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/