A question about setup.exe
Paul McFerrin
pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com
Thu Dec 24 20:06:00 GMT 2009
Does anyone know where the MTIMES of the installed packages are stored.
I need to over-ride them all in order to re-install the packages. I
could NOT find the http/ftp directory containing the files installed.
So I went through to check "reinstall" on every package (whew) and
downloaded the complete installation into a local directory. Fine.
I just need to slightly adjust the MTIME to setup to reinstall the
packages. When I did a full-restore, the software used the current time
as it's MTIME which has no meaning anymore. If I can't get these issues
resolved, I'll have to to a full install of 1.7 AND add back/test all of
my local stuff.
Basically what I have:
A full installation of 1.7.0-65 with current time as MTIME.
(useless)
A full installation of Cygwin 1.7 download into local directory.
No way to make #1 & #2 to meet!!
Andy Koppe wrote:
> 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
>
>
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