Update problems

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 01/08/2010 03:41 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 01/07/2010 09:39 PM, David Gast wrote:
>>> There are two problems with updating cygwin.
>>>
>>> 1. If you run setup.exe from bash, bash cannot be updated
>>> because the file is in use.
>>
>> Sure. This is the reason 'setup.exe' exists. It's a Windows
>> "feature" that keeps you from replacing a file that's in use.
>> 'setup.exe' was created to provide a native Windows program
>> to avoid the problem of something like 'setup.exe' needing to
>> update files that are in use by it. If it were possible to
>> replace files in use with the same ease as on Linux, say,
>> then 'setup.exe' would never be needed since things like
>> rpm, yum, and apt, to name a few, could be used directly
>> to install and update Cygwin.
>
> Cygwin 1.7 actually allows to replace an executable which is still in use:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg00423.html

But this is of no help here.  The fact that Cygwin has this feature internally
won't make 'setup.exe' use it.  If someone wants to offer a patch for 
'setup.exe'
to make it be able to be run from a Cygwin shell, I'm sure it will be 
thoughtfully
considered.

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