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Re: Install: setup behavior on downloading only


At 07:01 PM 8/24/2005, you wrote:
>I am trying to do a Download Without Install to place everything
>I want onto a CD.
>
>I have several questions..
>
>1. When downloading only, what does the "Uninstall" option
>   mean? Since I have not actuall installed anything, does it erase it
>   from the cache directory? What does it do in this case?


Nothing.


>2.  If you download using one mirror, and then later use another,
>    does setup resolve package names and versions across multiple cache
>    directories. In other words, if I have version 1.0 of a project in one
>    directory, and then later use another mirror, if the project on that
>    second mirror is at version 1.1, will setup see that and indicate that
>    I need to upgrade?


Yes.  'setup.exe' merges the results of multiple mirrors.


>3. I have bash-3.0-11 downloaded in my cache directory for
>ftp.mirrors.kernel.org.
>   I then go back to mirrors.kernel.org using setup. In the Full
>view(or Partial
>   view) in setup it shows version 2.05b-13 in the "Current" column and
>version
>   3.0-11 in the "New" column. Why does it think that version 2.05b-13
>is my
>   current version?  Where is it getting the current version from?


 From '/etc/setup/installed.db'.



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