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Re: setup-1_48
DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> Setup will check the DLL version (timestamp?) of cygwin1.dll to
> determine if it needs to upgrade or not (to accomodate snapshots).
> Not so for the other packages. The ability to track what *is*
> installed vs what *should* be installed has been an interesting
> challenge :-)
Yeah, but setup.exe does (did?) do this better. It fills in the Installed
Components bits of the registry and uses that to decide whether to update,
i.e.:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Installed
Components\C:/cygwin
(default) = `20000517'
bash = `0002.0004.0001'
binutils = `19990818.0002'
bison = `0000'
byacc = `0000'
bzip = `0000'
clear = `0001.0000'
[snip rest]
It may be imprecise, but it's better than nothing surely?
Jifl
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