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Re: Installer option?


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> Is there a way to permanently tell the setup.exe program NOT to update
> my version of findutils? Recent versions do not traverse the registry if
> they encounter *'s in key names. The version I have (4.1.7-4) does.
> Everytime I want to update cygwin though I have to manually tell it to
> leave findutils alone.

This was fixed in a snapshot (and it was not so much the * character
in key names as a bug in open() on virtual directories).  Otherwise,
you can wait for cygwin-1.5.19 when it is ready, and findutils-4.2.25
when it is released upstream.  In the meantime, sorry, there is no
way to force setup.exe to automatically not upgrade a file when a
newer version is available - it is a manual process every time you
run setup. :(

--
Eric Blake



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