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Re: Setup version in setup.ini


On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 03:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:50:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >Shouldn't setup.ini be updated to reflect the new setup version available?
> >See <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00813.html>.
> 
> It's supposed to be automatic.  Apparently someone removed the version
> marker strings in setup.exe that upset relies on for decoding the
> version.  I think this happens in nearly every setup release.

Hmm. Setup will crash if the setup_version doesn't get generated from
ChangeLog correctly... but it's possible the upx compression has the
sideffect of breaking the auto-identification.

Rob
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