On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, fergus wrote: > Even when a Cygwin installation is complete and up-to-date, a visit to the > Cygwin setup site to request "All" available updates repeatedly offers the > source files > > gcc-testsuite-3.3.3-3-src.tar.bz2 > setup-2.427-1-src.tar.bz2 > > I think I understand that the reason for the repeated offering is > "consistency with other Unix behaviours" which is just fine. (One can always > say No.) > > However: in the case of setup, should we not now be offered > > setup-2.457.2-1-src.tar.bz2 > > (or similar)? And secondly I do not really understand why what actually > comes down the pipeline for gcc-testsuite is > > gcc-testsuite-3.4.1-1-src.tar.bz2 > > (though there may be a good reason for this, too).
setup doesn't keep track of installed source packages. Since both setup- and gcc-testsuite- are source-only, setup doesn't keep track of them. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/
