Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 6 09:03, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Dave Korn wrote: >>> LOLWUT? It turns out something has gone horribly wrong in the >>> alternatives >>> department now: >>> [...] >> Actually, from Corinna's reply, it appears that, in addition to >> reverting *alternatives* because of the dependence that the new -10 >> package has on the the cygwin-1.7.0-45 ctype export, you may also need >> to revert any package that USES alternatives (or, at least, run >> /usr/sbin/alternatives to recreate the symlinks using the "old" method) > > Actually, what I was trying to imply is that reverting to a pre-45 test > release is not a good idea at all. Try to find the reason for your > problem while -45 is running. Let's go forward, not backward, please.
Well, as you see I did in the end, but when I'm trying to get a big and complex job finished I don't always want to stop and go explore a side-track for a couple of days. That doesn't mean I wouldn't come back to it later, but I gotta prioritise. cheers, DaveK -- 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/