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Re: Reuse of old downloded cygwin packages
At 03:43 AM 3/21/2005, you wrote:
>ok
>The problem is resolved..
>Actually I was copying folder from one hard-drive to another in DOS
>mode.so what happened .....all filenames and foldernames more than 6
>characters were renamed.. e.g. libgpg-error folder was renamed to
>LIBGPG~1 and libgpg-error-1.0-2.tar.bz2 file renamed to
>LIBGPG~1.BZ2.
>hence the setup was not detecting all packages...
>Now if u dont mind I just want ask whether this problem can be
>fixed???
Sure, if someone has the time and interest to create a patch for this
corner case. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for such a patch to be
generated by someone else however.
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