Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

[fergus <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>]

And, absolutely the last word tonight, here is a hitherto undiscovered 
way in which old setup misbehaves and new setup does not. It might help 
locate any current procedural flaw in new setup.

Unmount everything. Build a new directory c:\Cygwin\etc\setup and locate 
an up-to-date installed.db there (it need not be complete eg Base will 
do. If you already have c:\Cygwin temporarily rename it something else).

Now use old setup to try to build a new Cygwin system under c:\Test 
(overwriting the default offering c:\Cygwin). Old setup misbehaves as 
follows: somewhere in its early progress it sneaks a look at c:\Cygwin, 
finds installed.db, and deduces there is nothing to do.

New setup doesn't do this: it behaves properly, or appears to (at least 
in this role). Irrespective of the up-to-date installed.db lurking under 
c:\Cygwin, new setup respects the user's expressed wish to build under 
c:\Test, and goes ahead.

Fergus



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