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On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 04:24, Sven Köhler wrote: > hi! > > the cygwin-setup currently overwrites files in /etc without a warning. > it happened to me while updating the squid-package. > there should be a warning or the new file is given a new name like > /etc/.cygwin.squid.conf if the file squid.conf already exists. Actually, setup deleted the old squid.conf w/o warning - it didn't leave it there to be overwriten. It was a packaging bug, as the announcement on cygwin-announce described. If you are not subscribed to cygwin-announce, well I suggest that you do so. > another strange thing happened, when i was installing 2 packages that > both contained the same file. after uninstalling, the file was gone and > i had to reinstall the other package. > this could/should perhaps be avoided by using some hashes. Known bug, in the TODO list. Thanks for the report anyway. Rob
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