On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:14:57AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old >> versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old pdksh.exe got >> unlinked), and then installs the new versions (creating new files, >> essentially). It never did overwrite the file in-place. Changing this >> will probably involve radical modifications to setup's internal logic. > >Not that big a change actually - we already have the concept of >upgrading internally, it just needs to be taught that an upgrade isn't >an uninstall + install, but rather an unpack followed by removing files >no longer present in the package.
Another nice change would be to make setup's tar understand hard links. I think it treats them as a copy now, doesn't it? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/