Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 12/23/2009 02:24 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote:
>
> Updates using 1.5.25 have always worked, so I had
> assumed my setup configuration files had managed
> to stay intact.
>
> But, after reading the new User Guide I tried
> the new setup.exe and after about the third
> package download from ftp://mirrors.kernel.org
> I got:
>
> Can't open
> G:/installs/cygwin/packages/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwi
> n%2f/release/GNOME/_obsolete/atk/atk-1.26.0-1.tar.bz2.tmp
> for writing.
>
> and when I click OK on that, setup just exits.
>
> There is no _obsolete subdirectory in that tree.
>
> What does one do now???

Try again.  ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/release/GNOME/ shows 
that
directory now.


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