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RE: setup.exe: no skip/keep presented


Thanks. I'll try and replicate this this evening.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:37 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: setup.exe: no skip/keep presented
> 
> 
> I am trying to install a new version of byacc using an up-to-date
> version of setup.exe.
> 
> I copied my byacc-1.9-1.tar.bz2 file to my cyginst directory and ran
> setup.exe.
> 
> When I get to the "Select packages to install" screen and cycle to
> "Partial", I get a list of random junk that I've been experimenting
> with in my 'cyginst' directory.  One of the packages is 
> 'cygwin-1.3.4-1'.
> 
> So, I want to either 'Skip' or 'Keep' everything that is presented
> except for byacc.  The problem is that I can't do that for cygwin.
> Neither 'Skip' or 'Keep' is presented to me as an option.
> 
> FWIW, I only have these cygwin tar balls in my cyginst/ directory:
> 
> cygwin-1.3.3-1.tar.bz2  cygwin-1.3.3-2.tar.bz2  cygwin-1.3.4-1.tar.bz2
> 
> I have a cyginst/latest/cygwin directory but it only has an old
> newlib-man-20001013.tar.gz in it.  I don't have a setup.ini in this
> directory.
> 
> I remember struggling with this scenario when I first tried to fix the
> setup.exe automatic uninstall bug, so I wonder if this is what is
> happening.
> 
> cgf
> 
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