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Re: using non-versioned tar.gz file with new setup.exe
- To: jpollock at curl dot com
- Subject: Re: using non-versioned tar.gz file with new setup.exe
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 20:04:56 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <NEBBJPGNBOKKDAEIIMIKIEJICCAA.jpollock@curl.com>
> ash-20001109.tar.gz) but it still isn't apparently noticed by setup. Is
> there a supported way to do this? I'm pretty sure that editing setup.ini to
> try to indicate there's a different version present is not the way to go.
If you *have* a setup.ini, it controls *everything*. If you *don't*
have a setup.ini, setup installs whatever .tar.gz files it finds.
So, you may want to just delete setup.ini, or run setup *in* the ash
directory so it won't find setup.ini (it looks in the "local
directory").
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