> setup.exe crashes when I try to upgrade cygwin to the newest version. > > When I try to run setup.exe, it verifies no newer version exists, downloads > the > list of mirrors, and lets me choose packages, automatically marking those with > newer versions available for an upgrade. So far, so good. But one of the > packages which is updated frequently is cygwin, and setup crashes on any > atempt > to update this package. This happens even when no cygwin processes are > running. > > If I request the cygwin package to be left at the current version, all goes > well.
(1) Bug reports for setup.exe should go to cygwin-apps: see http://cygwin.com/lists.html. (2) For the likely solution, see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-08/msg00218.html and its second response (entire thread authored by me). Andrew. -- 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/
