setup.exe updated

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 3:09 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup.exe updated
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:58:21AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:55:48AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>I just noticed that the UCX compression breaks upset's ability to 
> >>detect the setup.exe version.  So, it's still being reported as 
> >>2.194.2.26 in setup.ini.
> >>
> >>Is there any way to make UCX not compress the embedded 
> version string?
> >
> >%s/UCX/UPX/g
> 
> Ok.  Here's a possible solution for that:
> 
> Don't compress setup.exe with upx.  I've installed upx on 
> sourceware and it seems to be able to compress this file with 
> no problem.
> 
> So, just upload an uncompressed file and let the upset 
> process compress it after it has determined the version number.
> 
> That's one less step for you, Robert.  Hopefully it is acceptable.

Works for me (tm).

The only nit being that snapshots will already be compressed, so I'll
need a fresh copy to copy over...

Rob