Greetings, Bjorn Kautler! > But first things first, it is Bjorn or Bjoern, not Bjorn. :-)
Apology. My current locale does not include western diacritics. > Now I only wanted to update the git packages, so I selected "Keep" in > the upper right corner, That's the worst thing you could possible do. It changes so many states on so many packages at once, that the result is hardly predictable. > filtered for "git" in the upper left and then > cycled in the "New" column and only got the entries "Keep", > "1.8.5.5-1" and "Uninstall". > If I now instead select "Curr" in the upper right, the git packages > have "2.0.4-1" selected in "New" column. > If I now cycle through the possibilities I still keep only getting > "Keep", "1.8.5.5-1" and "Uninstall". The only way to get 2.0.4-1 back in > that column is to deselect "Curr" and select "Curr" again. If you ask me, Setup is long overdue for a complete replacement. It "don't have" so many things other package managers allow, that I don't even know, where to start. Meta dependencies? Suggestions? Virtual packages? > So to just update Git to the newest version I would currently have to > select "Cur" and then manually change all other packages to "Keep", as > this seems the only way to get 2.0.4-1 selected as "New" version. Select "pending" list and remove checkboxes from binary packages you don't want to install. > Now comes the even more interesting part. > Now I started setup.exe with > setup-cygwin.exe --site ftp://ftp.hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de/cygwin/ > --only-site --root D:\\cygwin --package-manager - -local-package-dir > D:\\cygwin-packages --no-shortcuts --pubkey > http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg > which is the same command but only the cygwinports mirror removed. > What I see now is the same as before, just that the "New" column > entries reduced to "Keep" and "Uninstall" and selecting "Curr" is > still the only possibility to get 2.0.4-1 into the "New" column of the > git packages. > So this doesn't seem quite right, even with only one mirror selected. :-/ Indeed. That's quite interesting. P.S. Please don't https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 26.08.2014, <05:05> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
