[patch] setup.exe changes for Redownload/Reinstall Current version or Sources only - Part 2

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon May 7 21:32:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Brian Keener wrote:
>And now here is the actual diff for the change.

I've applied this patch.

I like the "Reinstall" option but I am not quite sure what the
"Sources" option does.  It will install the sources from the
requested source, whether it is the internet or the local directory,
right?

One problem that I had is that the installation of the sources
ignored my mount setting for /usr/src and/or /src.  It extracted
directly to (in my case) f:/cygwin/usr/src which made the extraction
invisible to me, since /usr/src is mounted elsewhere.

I don't know if this is a new problem of if setup.exe has always
worked like this, but this is a bug that could theoretically cause
us problems.  Anyone want to look at this one?

Thanks for the patch.

cgf



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