Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Blake
> Okay, now I'm trying to figure out how dircolors works. I've modified > /etc/LS_COLORS, then have done things like > > dircolors -b /etc/LS_COLORS > MyColors > . ./MyColors That's one way. Another is the method used by /etc/profile: eval "`dircolors -b /path/to/database`" > > but it doesn

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Timothy King
Eric Blake wrote: Timothy King timothyking.com> writes: The re-install fixed the path problem, but I still have strange things going on with the directory colors. Attached is a screen print. Notice some directores are the correct blue on white while others are black on green. Not

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Blake
Timothy King timothyking.com> writes: > The re-install fixed the path problem, but I still have strange things > going on with the directory colors. Attached is a screen print. > Notice some directores are the correct blue on white while others are > black on green. Not a bug, but a feature im

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Timothy King
On 3/9/06, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Setup actually does a bit more than leave .new files around -- it also > schedules the original files to be replaced by .new files on reboot. If > you have since rebooted, Windows would have done the job of renaming the > .new files for you.

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Larrie Carr
From: "Dave Korn" On 09 March 2006 19:37, Larrie Carr wrote: Sure I RTFM'ed and yes it says that. But I would argue that Keep does not exactly work the way that you say it does. So not using Keep does not indicate RTFM status. Well, since keep ABSOLUTELY DOES work EXACTLY how I described

RE: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 March 2006 19:37, Larrie Carr wrote: > Sure I RTFM'ed and yes it says that. But I would argue that Keep does not > exactly work the way that you say it does. So not using Keep does not > indicate RTFM status. Well, since keep ABSOLUTELY DOES work EXACTLY how I described it, you really n

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Larrie Carr
From: "Dave Korn" On 09 March 2006 18:22, Dave Korn wrote: ... one paragraph that needs a little clarification: On 09 March 2006 17:51, Larrie Carr wrote: But the latest is not always the best. For instance, octave could only be compiled with gcc 3.3.3 - but the latest in setup is 3.4.4.

RE: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 March 2006 18:22, Dave Korn wrote: ... one paragraph that needs a little clarification: > On 09 March 2006 17:51, Larrie Carr wrote: >> But the latest is not always the best. For instance, octave could only be >> compiled with gcc 3.3.3 - but the latest in setup is 3.4.4. I'm fine with

RE: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 March 2006 17:51, Larrie Carr wrote: > From: "Dave Korn" wrote >> On 09 March 2006 05:45, Larrie Carr wrote: >>> I had this problem a couple of months ago. My problem was caused by the >>> setup.exe being very helpful and (at least for me) defaulting to always >>> installing the latest ver

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Larrie Carr
From: "Dave Korn" wrote On 09 March 2006 05:45, Larrie Carr wrote: I had this problem a couple of months ago. My problem was caused by the setup.exe being very helpful and (at least for me) defaulting to always installing the latest version of anything you already had installed. And if you

RE: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 March 2006 05:45, Larrie Carr wrote: > I had this problem a couple of months ago. My problem was caused by the > setup.exe being very helpful and (at least for me) defaulting to always > installing the latest version of anything you already had installed. And if > you don't look at the r

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:06:28AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: >P.S. A note for the archives: now that setup has a proper mechanism to >detect failed postinstall scripts, along with scheduling replace-on-reboot >for the files in-use, we could (should) also create a batch file in >RunOnce after reb

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Timothy King wrote: > On 3/8/06, Larrie Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Timothy King" > > > Last night, I grabbed an additional package using setup.exe. It also > > > downloaded and installed the latest cygwin1.dll (1.5.19-4) and core > > > utilities. I had not upd

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Blake
> Last night, I grabbed an additional package using setup.exe. It also > downloaded > and installed the latest cygwin1.dll (1.5.19-4) and core utilities. I had > not > updated since early January. While it was running the post-install script, I > received serveral errors along the lines of

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-08 Thread Timothy King
On 3/8/06, Larrie Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Timothy King" > > Last night, I grabbed an additional package using setup.exe. It also > > downloaded and installed the latest cygwin1.dll (1.5.19-4) and core > > utilities. I had not updated since early January. While it was running > >

Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-08 Thread Larrie Carr
From: "Timothy King" Last night, I grabbed an additional package using setup.exe. It also downloaded and installed the latest cygwin1.dll (1.5.19-4) and core utilities. I had not updated since early January. While it was running the post-install script, I received serveral errors along the l

Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

2006-03-08 Thread Timothy King
Last night, I grabbed an additional package using setup.exe. It also downloaded and installed the latest cygwin1.dll (1.5.19-4) and core utilities. I had not updated since early January. While it was running the post-install script, I received serveral errors along the lines of "... could not