On Mar 10 08:09, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: > I'd however suggest that the FAQ is brought up to date: > - remove "You will not be able to replace cygwin1.dll if any > Cygwin process is running" > - insist that it does not break the setup.exe mechanism in any way > (this mechanism that is somewhat mysterious to me) > - use a single `tar' command line as suggested previously in this list > - using Explorer is not needed > - say a word about leftovers (a snapshot installs a file, the > next snapshot does not install it; the file remains forever within > the installation; is it a problem?)
Patches to the documentation are always welcome. I hate to write documentation. Personally I'm more interested in the comments in the source code ;) > I'd also suggest (like somebody in this list) that > the snapshot page contains a link to the FAQ section dealing > with snapshot installation. You know, snapshots should not be installed without need and otherwise only by people who feel comfortable running bleeding-edge stuff. > Also that you replace GMT by UT in > this snapshot page. I guess you mean UTC. Good point. Chris? > About the snapshot 20110309 wrt 20110308, one can see > that 4 files under usr/share/info have disappeared, and also > that regex.3.gz and regex.7.gz have also disappeared. > I suppose that this (minor) point remains under control of course (but > unsatisfactory isn't it?), this is the leftovers question, see above. Depends on the person creating the snapshots. I changed that in my script so I'm also going to omit these files in snapshots in future. > And finally, since we are talking setup.exe, i've observed that > even if you install and install continuously (say: every hour or so), > setup.exe continuously installs and installs again several of the > src packages (always the same packages, eg qt4-4.5.3-1-src), which > takes several dozens of seconds, I saw that as well, but I think this is only some hickup in postinstall script handling. It doesn't hurt so I really never cared enough to investigate. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple