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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Current setup timestamp 1590343308
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 07:12:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f853383e-3dec-3f06-a40d-32ba600062c7@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM6PR03MB528242CB105256EB8A3E2EE1A4B30@AM6PR03MB5282.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com>


On 2020-05-25 06:26, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote:
> On 25 May 2020 13:13, marco atzeri wrote:
>> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 2:08 PM Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote:

>>> Current setup timestamp 1590343308
>>> does not seem to overwrite /etc/setup/timestamp accurately (or at all).
>>> I think /etc/setup/installed.db is seen to as it should be.

>> What exactly is your problem ?
>> Be verbose we can NOT guess your thoughts.
>> 
>> Unix time: seconds since Jan 01 1970. (UTC)
>> https://www.unixtimestamp.com/index.php

> Sorry for lack of clarity.
> Cygwin32.
> Current installed timestamp 1590341902 (got from /etc/setup/timestamp).
> I noticed there's a newer setup.ini with timestamp 1590343308.
> So I ran setup-x86.exe.
> After a (presumed) successful run I noticed however, that the file
> /etc/setup/timestamp had not altered.
> "Presumed successful run" because the file /etc/setup/installed.db had a
> new, current, timestamp.

> (I deleted /etc/setup/timestamp and re-running setup-x86.exe to see whether 
> any self-correcting behaviour would ensue. The file was not recovered.)
It looks to me that /etc/setup/timestamp is updated by the last successful setup
(upgrade?) run, and contains a copy of the selected mirror's setup.ini
setup_timestamp field as of the last successful setup (upgrade?) run, a few
hours earlier than the last successful setup (upgrade?) run.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-25 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-25 12:02 Fergus Daly
2020-05-25 12:13 ` marco atzeri
2020-05-25 12:26   ` Fergus Daly
2020-05-25 13:12     ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2020-05-25 16:47 Fergus Daly
2020-05-25 19:12 ` Ken Brown
2020-05-25 20:14 ` Fergus Daly
2020-05-25 21:52   ` Brian Inglis
2020-05-25 21:53   ` Brian Inglis
2020-05-27  9:10 Fergus Daly

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