Re: update just ruby on offline cygwin installation

2014-08-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Just to add a bit beyond what Andrey has already said. On 08/11/2014 08:03 PM, LMH wrote: The problem I have is that cygwin has a tendency to remove depreciated packages when updating. This is an older setup and there are critical components in the build that are no longer available in more r

Re: update just ruby on offline cygwin installation

2014-08-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, LMH! > The problem I have is that cygwin has a tendency to remove depreciated > packages when updating. This is an older setup and there are critical > components in the build that are no longer available in more recent > cygwin packages. If this is a "critical setup", then you should

Re: update just ruby on offline cygwin installation

2014-08-11 Thread LMH
Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, LMH! > >> I am a bit uncertain about what you mean. > >> You said, "grab the current setup.exe" > >> Do you mean download the most recent one, or one from another machine >> with an internet connection? > > There can be only one definition of "current". The curr

Re: update just ruby on offline cygwin installation

2014-08-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, LMH! > I am a bit uncertain about what you mean. > You said, "grab the current setup.exe" > Do you mean download the most recent one, or one from another machine > with an internet connection? There can be only one definition of "current". The current one. > You said, "take both to

Re: update just ruby on offline cygwin installation

2014-08-11 Thread LMH
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 08/07/2014 04:32 PM, LMH wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have cygwin running on a box that does not have an internet >> connection. I would like to update ruby to 1.9.3p448 to make it >> compatible with some of my newer scripts. I'm not sure how to do that >> without updati

Re: update just ruby on offline cygwin installation

2014-08-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/07/2014 04:32 PM, LMH wrote: Hello, I have cygwin running on a box that does not have an internet connection. I would like to update ruby to 1.9.3p448 to make it compatible with some of my newer scripts. I'm not sure how to do that without updating the entire installation, using a new inst

update just ruby on offline cygwin installation

2014-08-07 Thread LMH
Hello, I have cygwin running on a box that does not have an internet connection. I would like to update ruby to 1.9.3p448 to make it compatible with some of my newer scripts. I'm not sure how to do that without updating the entire installation, using a new installer, etc. This is a fairly old ins