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Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced


Herb Martin wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:

Herb Martin wrote:

So what is the method to teach Setup that the file has been updated.

Have you tried simply uninstalling the Cygwin package? If you installed the new one into another location, you presumably don't need or want the other one. For most packages at least, SETUP doesn't automatically try to update it if you haven't installed it.




I didn't install Exim 4.54 into another location;
someone else mentioned an alternate locationa and
I (perhaps incorrectly) mentioned that I had downloaded
and compiled it FROM another location.

The "make install" was run normally and the specially
compiled (make options) is in the default (/usr/bin)
location.

All I wish to do is make Setup aware of this if it
is possible.


For now, I must (carefully) ensure that setup doesn't
overwrite my "good" version with the default.

If you reinstalled all of exim, you don't really need the cygwin version.. So you want to edit the /etc/setup/installed.db and give it an artificially high number, say 99.999, as the installed version of exim. This will stop cygwin from ever overwriting your installation of exim (unless the version ever gets higher than that.. unlikely in our lifetimes to be honest)

Chris

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