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Re: Problem installing setup-1.7


On Apr 27 18:36, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> The problem is that this doesn't allow a parallel installation for
>> now, even if setup-1.7 is working as advertised. 
>
> That's what I was trying to say.
>
>> I should add code
>> to the script which replaces all $OLD_CYGWINROOT path components with
>> $NEW_CYGWINROOT on the fly to support that.
>
> That would be useful, during the transition.

Right.  I'll look into it ASAP.

>> /etc/fstab.d/$USER is created and old 1.5 registry user mount points are
>> copied to /etc/fstab.d/$USER on the fly when the user starts the shell
>> the first time.  That's done by the new /etc/profile.d/user-fstab.c?sh
>> scripts in base-cygwin.
>
> "it" == 000-cygwin-post-install.sh.  I didn't know there were /other/ 
> components of base-cygwin that /would/ handle that part.

Isn't it nice to have a surprise every day? :)


Corinna

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