On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:31:45 -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to
> build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the "zip"
> tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install
> "zip." Well
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
It is irritating because I'm on a dialup, and I just wanted
to grab the small "zip" tool and keep going with my real
work. Instead I'm waiting waiting waiting waiting on piles
of downloads that I'm too lazy to go in and figure out.
Well... s
Lionel B wrote:
To give an example, I have installed the exp gcc 3.4.1 and mingw-gcc 20040822
packages. Now I see I have libtool-devel
1.9f_20041024 installed, whreas setup wants to change that to 1.5.10. I
suspect, but am not sure, that this is a
dependancy of my "exp" gcc and should therefore k
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to
build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the "zip"
tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install
"zip." Well, instead of doing just that, it also starte
"Brian Dessent" wrote:
> Lionel B wrote:
>
> /.../
>
> If you want to keep one or more packages at "Exp" versions this is the
> method I use:
>
> First thing you do after running setup each time, switch to partial.
> You will see a combination of Exp packages that setup wants to downgrade
> to
Lionel B wrote:
> To give an example, I have installed the exp gcc 3.4.1 and mingw-gcc 20040822
> packages. Now I see I have libtool-devel
> 1.9f_20041024 installed, whreas setup wants to change that to 1.5.10. I
> suspect, but am not sure, that this is a
> dependancy of my "exp" gcc and should
"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote:
> Setup by default tries to bring any
> already-installed package up/back to the "curr" version. Not only does it
> update old stuff, but if you have any "exp" releases installed, it'll
> actually try to "downgrade" them back to "curr". Yeah, that's not too cool.
> If
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon J. Van Every
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:32 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Cygwin installing too much stuff
>
> I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I
> typically us
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:31:45PM -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>- is Cygwin pushing new versions of stuff I previously downloaded?
Yes.
cgf
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"Brandon J. Van Every" wrote:
> I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to
> build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the "zip"
> tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install
> "zip." Well, instead of doing just that, it
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