Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)

Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Keith Starsmeare <kxs@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the patch; I have applied it to my sources, now all I have to do
> is get my gcc working again as I seem to have broken it; probably when I
> installed a newer snapshot! :(
> 

Time for some techniques on trying new snapshots.

Snapshots are a work in process.  The builds are not tested to the point of
being an official release and are supplied as a convenience to developers. 
But, if you wish to try a snapshot then you need to provide a means of
fallback.  If you don't, you'll get burned.

Here's what I do.

cp -rf d:/Cygwin d:/CygwinSnapshot

[edit] d:/Cygwin/Start.bat
   mount -f -b d:/Cygwin /
   ...
   bash

[edit] d:/CygwinSnapshot/Start.bat
   mount -f -b d:/CygwinSnapshot /
   ...
   bash

[shortcut] d:/Cygwin/Start.bat
[shortcut] d:/CygwinSnapshot/Start.bat

[install] snapshot into d:/CygwinSpanshot
[test] using the shortcut to d:/CygwinSnapshot/Start.bat

[Works?]
   [no] Try to debug what's wrong and report
   [yes] backup d:/Cygwin then install snapshot into d:/Cygwin


NOTE: You can't use both shortcuts at the same time.  It's either one or the
other and not both.  You'll have to have a testing environment on a separate
machine for that.

Enjoy,

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Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)

[Earnie Boyd]

\rReSent-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:33:29 -0400 (EDT)
ReSent-From: Jeffrey Juliano <juliano@email.unc.edu>
ReSent-To: Jeffrey Juliano <juliano@email.unc.edu>
ReSent-Subject: Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)
ReSent-Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21L1.0004152333290.21889@swift.cs.unc.edu>


--- Keith Starsmeare <kxs@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the patch; I have applied it to my sources, now all I have to do
> is get my gcc working again as I seem to have broken it; probably when I
> installed a newer snapshot! :(
> 

Time for some techniques on trying new snapshots.

Snapshots are a work in process.  The builds are not tested to the point of
being an official release and are supplied as a convenience to developers. 
But, if you wish to try a snapshot then you need to provide a means of
fallback.  If you don't, you'll get burned.

Here's what I do.

cp -rf d:/Cygwin d:/CygwinSnapshot

[edit] d:/Cygwin/Start.bat
   mount -f -b d:/Cygwin /
   ...
   bash

[edit] d:/CygwinSnapshot/Start.bat
   mount -f -b d:/CygwinSnapshot /
   ...
   bash

[shortcut] d:/Cygwin/Start.bat
[shortcut] d:/CygwinSnapshot/Start.bat

[install] snapshot into d:/CygwinSpanshot
[test] using the shortcut to d:/CygwinSnapshot/Start.bat

[Works?]
   [no] Try to debug what's wrong and report
   [yes] backup d:/Cygwin then install snapshot into d:/Cygwin


NOTE: You can't use both shortcuts at the same time.  It's either one or the
other and not both.  You'll have to have a testing environment on a separate
machine for that.

Enjoy,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
            __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__
Cygwin Newbies: < http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html >
           __Minimalist GNU for Windows__
  Mingw32 List: < http://www.egroups.com/group/mingw32/ >
    Mingw Home: < http://www.mingw.org/ >

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Re: Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)

[Chris Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 07:24:52AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>ReSent-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:33:29 -0400 (EDT)
>ReSent-From: Jeffrey Juliano <juliano@email.unc.edu>
>ReSent-To: Jeffrey Juliano <juliano@email.unc.edu>
>ReSent-Subject: Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)
>ReSent-Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21L1.0004152333290.21889@swift.cs.unc.edu>

Bye bye.

cgf

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Re: Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)

[Chris Faylor]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 11:37:23PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 07:24:52AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>ReSent-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:33:29 -0400 (EDT)
>>ReSent-From: Jeffrey Juliano <juliano@email.unc.edu>
>>ReSent-To: Jeffrey Juliano <juliano@email.unc.edu>
>>ReSent-Subject: Installing Snapshot Technique (WAS: Re: Resizeable xterms/rxvts)
>>ReSent-Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21L1.0004152333290.21889@swift.cs.unc.edu>
>
>Bye bye.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying good-bye to Earnie.  I have blocked
juliano@email.unc.edu from posting to this list.

If his email software gets fixed, he can contact me and I'll remove
the block.

cgf

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