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RE: setup.exe updated
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 15:55:15 +1000
- Subject: RE: setup.exe updated
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 3:09 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup.exe updated
>
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:58:21AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:55:48AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>I just noticed that the UCX compression breaks upset's ability to
> >>detect the setup.exe version. So, it's still being reported as
> >>2.194.2.26 in setup.ini.
> >>
> >>Is there any way to make UCX not compress the embedded
> version string?
> >
> >%s/UCX/UPX/g
>
> Ok. Here's a possible solution for that:
>
> Don't compress setup.exe with upx. I've installed upx on
> sourceware and it seems to be able to compress this file with
> no problem.
>
> So, just upload an uncompressed file and let the upset
> process compress it after it has determined the version number.
>
> That's one less step for you, Robert. Hopefully it is acceptable.
Works for me (tm).
The only nit being that snapshots will already be compressed, so I'll
need a fresh copy to copy over...
Rob