On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:40:25PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Paul McFerrin wrote: >>When I inadvertantly ran setup to perform an upgrade of my B20 >>environment the other week, I noticed that it deleted some files in my >>/bin directory. One particular file was "cal.exe" which I use more >>frequently than a real calendar. Is this normal or was it a fluke. I >>restored it from my backups. Also deleted were "egrep.exe" and >>"fgrep.exe". > > ><http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=%2Fbin%2Fcal> ><http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=%2Fbin%2Fegrep> > >I don't think it's reasonable to expect 'setup.exe' to upgrade your >packages from a B20 installation since too much has changed since then. >The key is to find the packages with the utilities you want and install >them. You can see from the links above, what you want still exists. >Just install the appropriate package. > > >>Can anyone explain the logic setup uses to determine which files to >>delete? Was it caused by some menu items not being checked with >>"keep"? > >If you uninstall a package, it removes the files for that package. If >you ask for an upgrade, it removes the old files and installs the new >ones. Of course, that assumes that the packages were installed with >'setup.exe' to begin with. If not, all bets are off.
Yeah, I hear ya. B20 sure was great. Sigh. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
