On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:39, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Please look at my message about your installation being out of date.
Harold
I had previously tried a setup.exe 'reinstall' and also uninstalling xserv and installing it from the easynet.be mirror, neither worked.
However, last night I tried deleting everything cygwin - not as easy as it sounds as there are some 'undeletable' link files - and reinstalling it all from uni-erlangen.de.
This worked. So I must conclude that mirror.ac.uk at least, and possibly easynet.be, are poor mirror choices :-(
Both of those mirrors look to be up to date to me.
It would be rather nice if setup had a way of verifying that the packages it loads are self-consistent.
No, I think your 'undeletable' link files is a clue... there had to be something messed up with your installation. It probably won't happen again since you deleted and reinstalled.
Harold