From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080412151515.GG23852@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4800AF02.DC1B3AF5@dessent.net>
On Apr 12 05:45, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > When I start setup-1.7, it seems to find the already existing c:/cygwin
> > installation. Even though I choose "C:/cygwin-2" as installation path,
> > the new setup-2.ini content is compared against the already existing
> > installation. The result is that setup-1.7 offers to install only
> > the single changed package: cygwin itself.
>
> Right, it reads /etc/setup/installed.db (where /etc is derived from the
> mount table) to see what the current versions are.
>
> > Why is setup using the information from the existing installation
> > even if I choose to install into another directory? Is it because
> > the mount points in the registry are looked at? That's not correct
> > anymore, given that the registry mount points are not used for the
> > new installation anyway.
> >
> > Is it possible to change setup so that it ignores the registry mount
> > points? And it must nort write new ones either, btw...
>
> Oh. Teaching it not to read or write to the mount table in the registry
> is going to be a lot more work than just telling it to read a different
> .ini file. I'll see what I can do, but until then I think we'll just
> have to tell people to do the switching manually (mount -m/umount -A).
Thank you.
I also found, when setup doesn't have the mount points it doesn't seem
to be able to take the /etc/setup/installed.db from the path entered as
root directory. It installs happily all base packages again a second
time.
Probably we will still need *some* registry entry. Setup could create
one for its own purpose, just to find the installation path. Maybe the
registry value should use a version number, so that we can have two
parallel installation again, should we ever release a -3 distro...
Corinna
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Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-02 12:36 Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-02 17:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-02 23:01 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-03 9:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 13:56 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-03 14:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 15:16 ` Igor Peshansky
2008-04-03 15:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 15:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 15:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 23:13 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-03 16:12 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-03 16:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 17:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-03 17:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 23:06 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-04 0:39 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-04 1:51 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-03 23:21 ` Warren Young
2008-04-04 0:41 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-03 22:52 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-04 12:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-05 10:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-05 6:17 ` Karl M
2008-04-04 0:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-04 12:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 16:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 17:27 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 17:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 18:42 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 21:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 21:18 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-08 21:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 21:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 23:27 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-09 8:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-09 11:34 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-09 12:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-09 12:28 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-09 14:32 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-09 16:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-11 15:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-12 0:35 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-12 11:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-12 12:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-12 12:43 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-12 15:15 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2008-04-12 17:43 ` Eric Blake
2008-04-12 23:00 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-13 9:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-13 19:35 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-14 9:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-14 14:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-15 3:00 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-15 8:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 9:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 9:24 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-15 9:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 9:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 14:17 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-15 15:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 16:16 ` Reini Urban
2008-04-15 17:59 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-15 18:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 18:52 ` Lapo Luchini
2008-04-16 9:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-16 16:25 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 15:45 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 18:47 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-20 21:56 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 22:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 22:44 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-20 22:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 23:08 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-20 22:40 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-21 8:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 20:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 20:54 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-15 18:58 ` Eric Blake
2008-04-16 2:25 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-16 8:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 14:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 17:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 20:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 6:03 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 6:59 ` Jörg Schaible
2008-04-22 8:26 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 11:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 8:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 9:46 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 10:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 11:07 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 14:44 ` Pēteris Kļaviņš
2008-04-22 14:56 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 15:26 ` Pēteris Kļaviņš
2008-04-22 15:39 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 23:18 ` Pēteris Kļaviņš
2008-04-23 9:27 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-23 20:09 ` Pēteris Kļaviņš
2008-04-22 15:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-14 23:24 ` Igor Peshansky
2008-04-15 3:08 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-15 8:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-12 12:24 ` Dr. Volker Zell
2008-04-12 12:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-13 3:43 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-13 9:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-13 19:47 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-13 4:44 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-13 9:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-14 2:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 21:39 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 21:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-11 16:27 ` Andrew Schulman
2008-04-11 16:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-24 22:41 ` Phil Nelson
2008-07-25 4:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-25 7:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-25 13:56 ` Phil Nelson
2008-07-25 14:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-06 14:35 klavins
2008-04-06 21:04 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 18:34 Charles Wilson
2008-04-08 18:43 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 21:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-09 15:04 Charles Wilson
2008-04-09 16:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 15:51 Charles Wilson
2008-04-22 16:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-25 11:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 16:08 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 17:02 ` Charles Wilson
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