setup-1.7 can't be used to update, only install
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sat May 3 01:47:00 GMT 2008
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Urgh, you're right. You'd have to temporarily switch the 1.5 mounts to
> point to the 1.7 tree in order to get setup-1.7 to update an existing
> 1.7 tree... ugly as heck.
Yeah, I discovered that when I tried to use setup-2.588 (to update my
1.5 tree) before running the mounts.bat file. Unsurprising, it behaved
exactly the same way...
> I have some patches mostly finished for setup to make this not quite so
> crude. There are still some corner cases that don't work correctly
> which is why I haven't published anything yet. I'll try to wrap it up
> this weekend.
That'd be very nice.
--
Chuck
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