2009/12/24 Paul McFerrin:
I did the upgrade to 1.7.1-1 without any problems. During the remainder of
the day, I accidentally blew away my installation of 1.7.1-1. I restored my
installation from a backup several days old (1.7.0-65). Now I'm trying to
upgrade again.
Now the questions I have are:
When I run setup again, it downloads/installes everything in under a minute
instead of the hour previously.
It wouldn't need to download the packages again, because they should
still be stored in setup.exe's local package directory. So it only
needs to do the install.
How can I "force" all of my installed
packages obsolete to force a reload?
If the backup and restore went correctly, you shouldn't need to,
because the install state of all packages is stored in the cygwin
directory, in /etc/setup. You can see which packages are going to be
upgraded by switching to the "Partial" view on setup.exe's package
selection screen.
Andy