setup-1.7 can't be used to update, only install

setup-1.7 can't be used to update, only install

[Charles Wilson]

I followed the instructions here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-04/msg00299.html
when I initially installed cygwin-1.7 alongside my existing cygwin-1.5 
tree. (Having learned my lesson about weird permissions, I did 
'pre-create' the C:\cygwin-1.7 directory and set the inheritable 
permissions on it the way I wanted em).

Now, I want to use setup-1.7 again to update the existing (1.7) 
installation.  Observing this:

> To update the 1.7 tree you will
> unfortunately have to run through the above

That is, stop all 1.5 processes, remove the 1.5 mount entries from the 
registry (using the umount command, not directly editing), and 
temporarily rename your 1.5 tree just to be paranoid.

> each time, as setup-1.7 will
> still see the 1.5 mount table in the registry, so you have to hide it
> first and restore the 1.5 one afterwards.

I ran setup-1.7 and carefully entered the correct path to my cygwin-1.7 
installation -- because setup found no registry info, it wanted to use 
the default C:\cygwin, and tried to put my local package directory 
inside C:\Windows\system32\...

Anyway, by the time I got to the chooser, setup-1.7 thought that I was 
doing a brand new installation. I had all the base files selected! 
That's not right.

It seems that, if setup-1.7 can't find mount information in the 
registry, it assumes you have a brand new installation and doesn't try 
to locate /etc/fstab and friends, much less /etc/setup/installed.db.

How can I use setup-1.7 to *update* -- not completely replace -- my 
side-by-side cygwin-1.7 installation?

--
Chuck

Re: setup-1.7 can't be used to update, only install

[Brian Dessent]

Charles Wilson wrote:

> Anyway, by the time I got to the chooser, setup-1.7 thought that I was
> doing a brand new installation. I had all the base files selected!
> That's not right.

Urgh, you're right.  You'd have to temporarily switch the 1.5 mounts to
point to the 1.7 tree in order to get setup-1.7 to update an existing
1.7 tree... ugly as heck.

I have some patches mostly finished for setup to make this not quite so
crude.  There are still some corner cases that don't work correctly
which is why I haven't published anything yet.  I'll try to wrap it up
this weekend.

Brian

Re: setup-1.7 can't be used to update, only install

[Charles Wilson]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Urgh, you're right.  You'd have to temporarily switch the 1.5 mounts to
> point to the 1.7 tree in order to get setup-1.7 to update an existing
> 1.7 tree... ugly as heck.

Yeah, I discovered that when I tried to use setup-2.588 (to update my 
1.5 tree) before running the mounts.bat file.  Unsurprising, it behaved 
exactly the same way...

> I have some patches mostly finished for setup to make this not quite so
> crude.  There are still some corner cases that don't work correctly
> which is why I haven't published anything yet.  I'll try to wrap it up
> this weekend.

That'd be very nice.

--
Chuck

Re: setup-1.7 can't be used to update, only install

[Charles Wilson]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Urgh, you're right.  You'd have to temporarily switch the 1.5 mounts to
> point to the 1.7 tree in order to get setup-1.7 to update an existing
> 1.7 tree... ugly as heck.
> 
> I have some patches mostly finished for setup to make this not quite so
> crude.  There are still some corner cases that don't work correctly
> which is why I haven't published anything yet.  I'll try to wrap it up
> this weekend.

Hey, Brian, any luck with this yet?  Any (small) places where you could 
use some help?

--
Chuck