From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (mailsrv.cs.umass.edu [128.119.240.136]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44B343858425 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2022 14:31:28 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 44B343858425 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cs.umass.edu Received: from [192.168.50.148] (c-24-62-201-179.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.62.201.179]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AA2AA4040061; Thu, 8 Sep 2022 10:31:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 10:31:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.0 Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: How to get setup to *re*install a package from the command line Content-Language: en-US To: Christian Franke , cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Eliot Moss In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 9/8/2022 2:00 AM, Christian Franke wrote: > Eliot Moss wrote: > If data in /etc/setup is still intact, a quick way with the GUI should be run to the recent 2.921 RC > release of setup, select the "Up To Date" view and then press and hold Ctrl+R. > https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2022-August/252146.html This was very helpful and was able to re-install everything. inetutils-server balked at how the permission on /var were set, but once I corrected those, it also finished installing. Thank you! Now we'll see if a re-install fixed my issues :-) ... EM