cyg-apt upgrade problem

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Samiullah Mohammed wrote:
> Ccing list


There's really no need to cc the list for a package that is not part of
the Cygwin distribution.  Taking this up with the owner at the prescribed
site is the recommended course of action.


>> Jan,
>>
>> cyg-apt has a problem with upgrading
>> cygreadline6.dll because the cygwin exe is already
>> executing/holding onto cygreadline6.dll. 
>>
>> I have already run "cyg-apt update".
>> Here is the log:
>>
>> Administrator@mymachine /cygdrive/c/tmp 
>> $ ./cygapt upgrade
>> ...
>> <snip>
>> ...
>>
> /./var/cache/setup/http%3a%2f%2fgnu.kookel.org%2fftp%2fcygwin/release/cygwin
>> win-1.5.20-1.tar.bz2
>> 6fb0837ddb1b50a0a5f1645ceb36820e 
>> cygwin-1.5.20-1.tar.bz2
>> 6fb0837ddb1b50a0a5f1645ceb36820e 
>> cygwin-1.5.20-1.tar.bz2
>>
>> preparing to replace libreadline6 5.1-1
>> warning: /./usr/bin/cyghistory6.dll no such file
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "./cygapt", line 1058, in ?
>>     __main__.__dict__[command] ()
>>   File "./cygapt", line 897, in upgrade
>>     install ()
>>   File "./cygapt", line 887, in install
>>     cpm.uninstall (packagename)
>>   File "./cygapt", line 427, in uninstall
>>     if os.remove (file):
>> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> '/./usr/bin/cygreadline6.dll'
>>


This is expected on Windows given that cyg-apt uses Cygwin's
Python.  Simply put, whatever DLLs and other files that are
necessary to run apt-get will not be upgradeable with the
normal cyg-apt mechanism.  There's no good way around this.


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