Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <006001c1f109$5ef37de0$cd8a9dc0@uk.aonix.com> From: "Cliff Hones" To: "Robert Collins" , "Cygwin" References: Subject: Re: New version of setup - prerelease available Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 13:11:47 +0100 Organization: Aonix Europe Ltd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Robert Collins wrote: > I've uploaded a new version of setup.exe, and source, to > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-md5-20020501.exe and > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-md5-20020501-src.tar.bz2. > > New features: > * Allows source only packages. > * Checks md5 sums if present in setup.ini > * NEVER redownloads a file. - 'Redownload' has been removed. (3 users > out of several thousand is simply not enough cause to keep a kludge). > * Some bugfixes, including a nasty one which may have caused some > locally downloaded files to *never* be installable. > * The source will build when targeted against cygwin or mingw, and > without all the cygwin sources. > * new command line option -n/--no-shortcuts disables the default > shortcut creation. > > This snapshot was made immediately prior to the CVS being branched (The > tag is setup-200205). As such it has the 'White box', but that will be > removed prior to release. > > Barring any bug reports in the next day, this will be released. > > ***** IMPORTANT ***** > > Enabling the MD5 support on sourceware *will* cause prior versions of > setup to start complaining, although they *should* still work. As such, > you will not be able to downgrade if you don't like the version. Please > help us make it the best ever via your feedback on this pre-release! > > ******************** The removal of redownload is exactly what I hoped. Running in download mode twice in succession with the same (default) selections caused no packages to download the second time. When I try "install from local directory" and select the defaults (ie install everything which has been updated) setup gets as far as showing the install progress box, then throws up a box informing me that setup.ini is older than the one I used last time I installed Cygwin. I can only find one Cygwin setup.ini file on my system, and it's the one setup had just downloaded (from programming.ccp14.ac.uk) with identification: setup-timestamp: 1020183008 setup-version: 2.194.2.24 My cygwin\etc\setup\timestamp contains 1020183008, which looks ok to me. -- Cliff. -- 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/