From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28647 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2019 00:05:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28636 invoked by uid 89); 20 Aug 2019 00:05:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=fe, roaming X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:05:39 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id x7K05VT8005412; Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:05:34 -0700 Message-ID: <5D5B394B.9050705@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:02:00 -0000 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Andrey Repin CC: David Karr Subject: Re: Win7 update may create confusing Cygwin changes References: <5D571D62.5040104@tlinx.org> <15610238789.20190819141409@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <15610238789.20190819141409@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00292.txt.bz2 Hi Andrey! On 2019/08/19 04:14, Andrey Repin wrote: > However, with all due respect, you should follow your own advice first. > There's more ways to resolve this, and all of them are more correct, than > generating static files which would get stale rather fast. --- How do the static files get stale? Only time I've seen has been if I did something to require a new local machine image (reinstall windows, or move hard disk to new, working machine, etc) which cause the local machine and rid's to change. What are you talking about when you say stale? > F.e. you could try setting > db_home: windows > for it to pick your system profile directory. --- But do you know what it does if you have a roaming profile? With a roaming profile, which I _had_ for over 15 years, it would come up with different values for USERPROFILE based on *something*, that different from HOME (as a composite of $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH). Now I dunnow if one value or the other was 'stale', but having it change wasn't what I wanted. That made software expecting USERPROFILE = HOME or such, get confused. So i'm interested in situations where what I have won't work (the places where you say it gets 'stale').... Could you elaborate\ please? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple