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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.10.3-1


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:25:50PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>Jon TURNEY wrote:
>
>> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution:
>> 
>> *** xorg-server-1.10.3-1
>> *** xorg-server-dmx-1.10.3-1
>
>----
>	How can I install 'just' those packages (from the command
>line)....
>
>	The GUI has no option to only install 1 package --
>it selects ALL, (100's of my packages want updates, but when I tried I
>tried it last, I ended up with a completely non-function cygwin setup
>(no bash, nada..., thank goddess I had a backup...)
>
>	So now now, I tried going through and unselecting, but there
>were too many and my wrists gave out.....and of course the GUI has
>not KB-accelerators like shift-minus to unselect all, that I could find.
>
>	Any easy way to cherry pick packages to install rather than being
>forced fed entire updates all at once?
>
>the cmd line 'setup' claims to allow you to install, one package, but
>then it went through the whole gui process and still had all the other
>default packages installed!....

If you ran setup.exe and it deleted bash then there is something very
seriously wrong with either your system or setup.exe.

I know where my money would go if I was betting on which of the above
was more likely.

cgf

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