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RE: src files for setup : repeatedly offered


Sounds like a bug. It's low priority (as you can install), I will
investigate this weekend.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net [mailto:fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 5:51 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
> Subject: src files for setup : repeatedly offered
> 
> 
> Having a few problems on W98/SE with setup.exe v.2.218.2.8 
> (md5sum 9689c564b7cc316b5650fce3f41e16e2 is it my imagination 
> or has there been more than one 2.8?) including "incomplete 
> installation" messages. But nothing intrinsically different 
> to phenomena already reported by others.
> 
> But my question, or observation, is about the new possibility 
> of downloading/ installing setup*src* files. There's no 
> binary, and so no record is kept of whether a user has or has 
> not "installed" these files. So, irrespectively and 
> interminably, the offer to do so is repeatedly made at 
> subsequent visits to http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. Yes? That's 
> my experience anyway. (At least, it is when All Default is 
> clicked to All Install.) For all other packages, the source 
> files are offered as an optional extra to the binaries, so 
> the situation does not arise.
> 
> Fergus
> 
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