Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

[Harold L Hunt II]

Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:39, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
>>Please look at my message about your installation being out of date.
>>
>>Harold
> 
> 
>  I had previously tried a setup.exe 'reinstall' and also uninstalling
> xserv and installing it from the easynet.be mirror, neither worked.
> 
>  However, last night I tried deleting everything cygwin - not as easy as
> it sounds as there are some 'undeletable' link files - and reinstalling
> it all from uni-erlangen.de.
> 
> This worked. So I must conclude that mirror.ac.uk at least, and possibly
> easynet.be, are poor mirror choices :-(

Both of those mirrors look to be up to date to me.

> It would be rather nice if setup had a way of verifying that the
> packages it loads are self-consistent.

No, I think your 'undeletable' link files is a clue... there had to be 
something messed up with your installation.  It probably won't happen 
again since you deleted and reinstalled.

Harold