New setup.exe release candidate - please test
Alexey N. Solofnenko
A.Solofnenko@mdl.com
Tue Dec 28 17:51:00 GMT 2004
I usually install everything, but always have to unselect two source
only packages (setup and gcc-testsuite). Is it possible to remember that
they are already installed and not to offer to reinstall them every time?
- Alexey.
Max Bowsher wrote:
> Version 2.459
>
> - Repair the broken detection of wrongly-sized package files.
>
> - Fix setup keeping open handles to every tarball it installs during a
> run.
>
> - Fix a miscellany of error-reporting deficiencies.
>
> - Close stdin, to protect against rogue postinstall scripts attempting to
> wait for user input.
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.459.exe
>
> Also, this release appears in my testing to fix the hang when a new
> install-everything setup is attempted, as side-effect of other bugfixes.
>
> Please test - if no regressions are discovered in the next few days,
> it will be promoted to the release version, accessible from the
> cygwin.com main page.
>
> Max.
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