From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28252 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2002 17:22:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28245 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2002 17:22:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gold.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.12) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2002 17:22:50 -0000 Received: from mob22.robinson.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.217.120] helo=pomello) by gold.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 1897Pd-0007kB-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 17:22:49 +0000 Message-ID: <014501c284ef$ebaed930$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Robert J. Cristel" , References: <3DC71242.37B70014@sprint.ca> Subject: Re: Setup starting not from zero Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 09:22:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00150.txt.bz2 Robert J. Cristel wrote: > I read your 17 Oct "Setup and recovering from > mistakes" with interest. > > Ok, pretend that I'm a three-year-old. Here's my > directories with subdirs shown with tabs. ... Well, your directory layout seemed mangled in parts. I assume your mailer ate it. However, I get the general idea - you've got a total mess of directories. > Of course, this isn't completely expanded in that > release, contrib and latest contain package > directories--but you guys already know that, > obviously. > > Note that my original plan was to use /cyginstall > then that must have seeming inadequate so I went and > created /cyginstal. (Seemed like a good idea at the > time...) > > My question is: How to update from here in the most > efficient manner? Merge all your "release" directories into one under cyginstall, and get rid of cyginstal. "latest" and "contrib" haven't been used in ages. Delete them unless you want to keep old versions around. So the layout is: cyginstall release lot-of-package-dirs Now run setup.exe, specifying cyginstall as the local package directory. (NOT cyginstall/release) New stuff will download into {http:,ftp:}* directories, but setup will see the stuff in release as well. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/