On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Shankar Unni wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to > > reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. > > I've been using it for a couple of days on a WinXP SP1 box and a Win2K > SP2 box. No problems on either. > > However, one of the installations has had a long-standing problem > (across all the setup versions I've tried), that I'd love to track down. > > I've always excluded (Skip) all XFree86 packages. One of the boxes > understands and remembers this - it doesn't auto-select any of the > XFree86 packages on subsequent runs of setup, but the other doesn't > remember this, and always insists on selecting a number of the XFree86 > packages, which I then have to Skip by hand each time.
Is it possible that the problematic box has X already installed on it ? If there is an older version of a package already installed, setup will try to upgrade it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/