Cygwin setup seems to have changed in a way that thwarts my efforts at maintaining several instances of Cygwin on one machine. I have been juggling several cygwin instances on the same machine. Briefly, I keep copies of the Cygwin registry keys for each install, and to switch instances I make sure that no cygwin process is running and then double click the appropriate .reg file. To install yet another instance of Cygwin, I nuke the Cygnus Solutions keys in the registry (LOCAL_MACHINE->Software, but also LOCAL_USER->Software just to be safe), run setup - pointing it to someplace new, and then export the registry keys for the new install. This worked fine until today and Setup version 2.427 (the one with the nice, resizable window).
Here is what happens. I delete the Cygnus Solutions registry keys. I launch setup. It suggests as the cygwin root F:\cygwin. (For some reason XP decided to make the first disk drive F: on my machine.) I don't want F:\cygwin because it's already a cygwin instance, and so I change it to F:\XORGcygwin (by typing into the text box or by creating XORGcygwin beforehand and selecting with the browse button). When I hit next, it Suggests a download directory of C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop (which is incorrect because my box has no C drive), and I change it to F:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop. When the package selection menu appears, it lists packages as if I'm upgrading the instance in F:\cygwin. Packages that are installed in that instances and up-to-date are listed as "keep", and packages from the existing instance that are now out of date are listed with the old versions and the new versions as if they are to be upgraded. Has the installer been changed? I've been maintaining 4 different cygwin instances on the machine in question since February, and this has never happened before. I consider the new behavior to be a bug, or at least undesirable new behavior. If you agree, please restore the old behavior to setup. If not, how can I install and maintain several instances of Cygwin on one machine? Thanks, Dick ----------------- Dick Repasky Bioinformatics Support UITS Cubicle 101.08 Indiana University USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
