From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: sincerely beg your help!!! for getting version 2.6.0-1
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <219d2249-7e83-72b1-50f1-19a49215d0d2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBDBCC1@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net>
On 17/01/2017 15:09, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote:
> From: Marco Atzeri
>> On 17/01/2017 13:42, sun zheng wrote:
>>> hi team,
>>
>> As cygwin is a rolling distribution you can consider
>>
>> http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html#AHEM
>>
>> for an installation frozen in time.
>>
>> Regards
>> Marco
>
> Maybe I'm missing something because I'm confused why Marco is suggesting
> timemachine when setup.exe still offers version 2.6.0-1. Just click on
> the package in the New column until it shows your version, then proceed
> with the installation.
>
> --Ken Nellis
>
Hi Ken,
two reasons:
- he could need to install again sometime in the future,
and than going back will not work.
- some packages could use new features added by 2.6.1
and it will be a mess to understand which packages must be
downgraded.
Regards
Marco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-17 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-17 12:42 sun zheng
2017-01-17 12:54 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-01-17 14:10 ` Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-01-17 14:22 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2017-01-17 17:35 ` Andrey Repin
2017-01-17 19:03 ` Brian Inglis
2017-01-18 0:05 ` sun zheng
2017-01-18 17:18 ` help " Brian Inglis
2017-01-17 18:04 ` sincerely beg your help!!! for " Achim Gratz
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