From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Polley Christopher W" To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: setup.exe selects old versions for required packages Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:28:00 -0000 Message-ID: <718198F862F1D411B10F0002A50A4DB101A4F0B1@e90wwce3.dx.deere.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg01648.html Message-ID: <20011127072800.Q19CPuSZodp9e0lmKnWYaRbU6o_HTRpgIhjO9FaS51M@z> I've just reinstalled cygwin today and was frustrated to find while selecting packages to install from my local directory, when I changed a package from skip to , setup.exe selected the less-recent version of all required packages (i.e., selecting automake requires autoconf, and version 2.13-2 was brought up rather than the most recent 2.52-1) I ended up tediously going through the list of packages to select the ones I wanted, then going through the entire list a second time cycling through each and every selected package to make sure I had the latest version selected. Could selecting the most recent version of required packages as the default behavior (when required packages are not already installed) please be added to the setup.exe wish list? Has a version requirement (similar to RPM) been considered to alleviate the installation problems seen with vim/gettext? Warm Regards, Chris -- 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/