On 26 August 2010 20:24, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 8/26/2010 3:03 PM, Blaine Miller wrote: >> PS... I read in the archives the following quote... >> >> Rerun 'setup.exe' and pick "Prev". >> >> There is no such option that I can find... > > Look at the page where you select packages, just above the list of > packages and to the right, next to the "Category" button. "Cur" is > the default selected radio button. "Prev" is one of the other > options.
I'd recommend against using the "Prev" button. It gives you a rather random collection of old packages, where some are years older than the current one and others just a couple of weeks. There's no guarantee that those disparate versions will actually work together properly, in fact, it's very likely that things will break. It sure doesn't get tested. Going back to the previous version of a particular package is useful when there's a regression in the latest version, but doing the same across the whole distro, not so much. Cygwin 1.5 and setup-legacy.exe is the way to go if you want something old and unsupported that actually works. Question: would anyone miss the "Prev" button if it were to disappear? Andy -- 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
