baffling cygwin setup.exe behavior

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 10/8/2013 2:52 PM, Don Hatch wrote:

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> So, as far as I can see,
> the only way to get rcs 5.8.2-1 is to globally select "Curr"
> and *don't click on rcs at all*.
> So, to upgrade rcs and nothing else,
> I'd have to globally select "Curr"
> and manually change every package *except* rcs
> to "Keep", leaving rcs alone.
> That seemed like a lot of work and error prone,
> and I knew I was going to be doing all this several times,
> and who knows whether I'd run into other problems on the way.
> So instead, I elected to upgrade
> my entire system to "Curr", even though
> that's not really what I wanted.
>
> If anyone can explain what's going on here
> (is this a bug? or something wrong with my thinking?)
> and how to do this simple operation,
> I'd really appreciate it.

I'm not sure why you cannot get back to 5.8.2-1.  I can but I
don't have 'rcs' installed so my cycle just goes from Skip->
5.8.2-1->5.8.1-1->Skip->....

I guess if all else fails, try uninstalling and reinstalling
'rcs'.

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Larry

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