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Re: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.


On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:54:19PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 23 February 2008 18:50, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>> Thanks for looking at this, but that's really only solving half of the
>> problem.  The other half is that we generate one of these bogus .lst.gz
>> files while installing a package if the user is prompted to retry an
>> in-use file and clicks the close-X in the dialog instead of chosing
>> retry or replace.
>
>  I'll get to that next :)  This is just to be nice to any users who have
>already got one of these files (or corrupted it by any other means).

Thanks for doing this.  I think this bug may be near the top of the list
for why everyone thinks cygwin's setup.exe sucks.

cgf


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