Currently when upgrading the base 'cygwin' package, the installer only warns you midway through the installation after some files have been removed/replaced.
If you have other cygwin processes running, you may be left in an incomplete state where you can't or don't want to kill the other cygwin processes leaving you stuck in the middle of install while you wait to be able to finish or kill the existing cygwin processes. Even worse, several core cygwin utilities are now broken (such as 'ps') due to the partial install. I have done this inadvertently a couple of times when 'cygwin' gets thrown in as a part of another intentioned download. Today I was left in an even odder state since I ran 'setup.exe' from a bash prompt -- leaving me in a catch-22 since if I kill the bash processes then I kill setup but I can't continue until I kill the bash processes... -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Suggestion%3A-Have-setup.exe-warn-before-upgrading-%27cgywin%27-package-itself-tp26327934p26327934.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
