Hello, I have an existing Cygwin-1.5 environment that I use to support my development team. I am setting up a virtual machine with Cygwin 1.5 so that I can test the upgrade to Cygwin 1.7.
The installation process for my Cygwin 1.5 environment involves installing from a previously downloaded and archived "local directory" for the most part, but there's one final step where a few final packages (like apache2) are downloaded from an Internet mirror. However, the setup.exe that I currently have for 1.5 now fails to parse the current .ini file it downloads from any mirror - it suggests using a newer version of setup.exe. But I cannot find a version of setup.exe for Cygwin 1.5, only for the newer Cygwin 1.7, and this one will force me to upgrade I believe (unless there's a commandline switch I don't know about). This makes me wonder if the official mirrors don't carry Cygwin 1.5 packages any more. Is this the case? If they do, how can I get hold of a correct version of setup.exe that understands the latest version of the downloaded ini file but won't upgrade me to Cygwin 1.7? Or am I stuck with a mandatory upgrade to Cygwin 1.7? If that is the case, I can't see how I can test the upgrade process, and there's no way I can roll out Cygwin 1.7 onto our production servers without running it through a test upgrade first. If I can't install Cygwin 1.5 any more, I can't test this upgrade process. So there must be a way to do this and I'm missing something obvious. I understand that my 1.5 installation archive should have contained *all* the packages we need, and downloading the latest version of apache2 etc is the cause of my problem. However, hindsight is a wonderful thing... :) All help thankfully appreciated, -- David. -- 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
