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RE: src files for setup : repeatedly offered
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:11:52 +1000
- Subject: 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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