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Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)
- To: cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:24:52 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Keith Starsmeare <kxs@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the patch; I have applied it to my sources, now all I have to do
> is get my gcc working again as I seem to have broken it; probably when I
> installed a newer snapshot! :(
>
Time for some techniques on trying new snapshots.
Snapshots are a work in process. The builds are not tested to the point of
being an official release and are supplied as a convenience to developers.
But, if you wish to try a snapshot then you need to provide a means of
fallback. If you don't, you'll get burned.
Here's what I do.
cp -rf d:/Cygwin d:/CygwinSnapshot
[edit] d:/Cygwin/Start.bat
mount -f -b d:/Cygwin /
...
bash
[edit] d:/CygwinSnapshot/Start.bat
mount -f -b d:/CygwinSnapshot /
...
bash
[shortcut] d:/Cygwin/Start.bat
[shortcut] d:/CygwinSnapshot/Start.bat
[install] snapshot into d:/CygwinSpanshot
[test] using the shortcut to d:/CygwinSnapshot/Start.bat
[Works?]
[no] Try to debug what's wrong and report
[yes] backup d:/Cygwin then install snapshot into d:/Cygwin
NOTE: You can't use both shortcuts at the same time. It's either one or the
other and not both. You'll have to have a testing environment on a separate
machine for that.
Enjoy,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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