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Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8


On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:18:05AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cliff Hones [mailto:cliff@aonix.co.uk] 
>> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:51 AM
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8
>> 
>> 
>> > Should this behavior of setup.exe's searching the directory 
>> tree below 
>> > the '/' mount point be documented, or should it be changed?
>> 
>> Changed, please - or at least setup should run some sort of 
>> sanity check on the files it finds before trying to parse them.
>
>There is a sanity check. It's called parsing the file. If the file is
>called setup.ini, setup *will* try to parse it. It shouldn't parse
>non-setup.ini files anymore (thanks Chris).

By that Robert means that files named "setup.ini.sav" will no longer
be parsed.  Just files who exactly match setup.ini.

Or, er, there may still be one bug lurking which causes something like
foosetup.ini to be matched in some cases but that should be fixed soon.

cgf

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