On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:37, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote:
> For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction
> point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have
> done it with mount, but I didn't.
>
> Just today after running setup.exe and getting cygw
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:37, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote:
>> For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction
>> point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have
>> done it with mount, but I didn't.
>>
>> Jus
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:25, Robert R Schneck wrote:
> In fact you are correct. setup.log.full contains:
> 2004/02/03 22:59:17 Uninstalling man
> ...
> rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache/man
> rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache
> rmdir C:\cygwin/var
> Indeed, calling rmdir on a junction point will remove it, I su
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>Robert Collins
>Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:36 PM
>To: Robert R Schneck
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?
>
>On Wed, 20
At 09:56 PM 2/3/2004, Rafael Kitover you wrote:
>>-Original Message-
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>>Robert Collins
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:36 PM
>>To: Robert R Schneck
>>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subj
Rafael Kitover wrote:
Maybe either Cygwin or fileutils could have some support for NTFS
> junctions,
The right long-term answer is to do proper reference counting among the
packages. I.e. if two packages install a common file or directory, its
reference count is 2. When uninstalling one of the
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