From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29960 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2014 13:42:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 29950 invoked by uid 89); 7 Oct 2014 13:42:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:42:42 +0000 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by gateway2.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463C02091B for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:42:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:42:40 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.93] (unknown [86.174.34.63]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C185A680113; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:42:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5433EDCC.6090700@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:42:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: furriner67@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Subject: Re: FW: Cygwin start menu / mirrors References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 On 04/10/2014 18:16, t s wrote: > first of all, regarding the Cygwin setup program; the options are > install / re-install / un-install / default > > is it correct that to install only the latest updates, I would choose > the option 'default' ? I'm not sure what text you are looking at. The options for an individual package which is already installed are 'reinstall', 'uninstall', 'keep' and specific versions other than the currently installed one (if any). I can't see "default" anywhere. If you mean the default version, then yes, when "curr" is selected at the top, all packages which have updates, will be updated. > next question : if I delete the start menu option "Cygwin/x" and run > the setup program for option "default", it doesn't re-create the > start menu option "Cygwin/x" > > is this 'feature' acknowledged, and is it being addressed? The start menu link for for the X server is owned by the package xinit. If you reinstall that package, it should be recreated. I'm not sure what you are asking for here. If you were (for example) to delete /usr/bin/XWin.exe, are you expecting setup to reinstall that file, even though the package which owns it has no updates? While setup has many, many infelicities, I'm not sure this is one of them. Patches are always thoughtfully considered. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/