Updated: setup (2.923)

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sun Nov 20 17:14:47 GMT 2022


A new version of Setup (2.923) has been uploaded to:

  https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe  (64 bit version)
  https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe     (32 bit version)

Changes compared to 2.919:

- Add perpetual support for preremove scripts (thanks to Christian Franke)

- Major update to libsolv (from 0.6.29 to 0.7.22).  Fix a crash this causes.

- Allow packages to be marked as 'self-destruct'.  (This is intended for 
use in the rare cases where a package is obsolete, but has no direct 
replacement.)

- Add new option '--no-write-registry', which inhibits recording the 
installation root directory in the registry, which may be useful for 
portable or temporary installs (thanks to Christian Franke)

- Add view modes "Removable" and "Unneeded" (thanks to Christian Franke)

- Add Ctrl-I/R/U as keyboard accelerators for 
install/reinstall/uninstall in the package chooser (thanks to Christian 
Franke)

- Restore the ability to run on Windows 5.1 (XP/Server 2003), in 
conjunction with '--allow-unsupported-windows'


This is not the place for setup feature requests.

For instructions on obtaining and building the source code for setup, 
see https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html

Please send bug reports, as usual, to the public mailing list cygwin AT 
cygwin DOT com.


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