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Re: setup.exe and replacing of in-use files
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:07:44PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> using release number like 2.2.2-[ab][0-9] has historical reasons and
> because of the problems of the sourceforge file release system as I
> wrote in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-07/msg00440.html I
> can't change this for already released files :-(,
>
> so are there any other possibilities to solve this problem ?
PRC-Tools tells its users to point setup.exe at
http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/
(i.e. our Sourceforge *website*) and then uses HTTP redirects therein to
map whatever collective hallucination we'd like setup.exe to see into
the reality of the Sourceforge file release system. For us, it's pretty
simple:
.../htdocs/install/.htaccess:
RedirectMatch install/(.*[^/].*/.*) http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$1
John "server munging trumps setup munging"