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Re: Problems with setup.exe
- To: cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Problems with setup.exe
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:18:40 -0400
- References: <3935534C.8265.3ADB45@localhost> <393606FD.665CA606@rocketmail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:17:25PM +0530, Shiv Kumar wrote:
>I do a setup -u whenever I get a mail from cygwin-announce and I have not faced
>this problem so fact. All my mounts are intact even after setup.
You're using the default setup. setup.exe does not remove old mounts. It just
tries to reset the mount table to a sane state before extracting.
cgf
>Before setup -u :-
>
> Device Directory Type Flags
> D:\export\home\shiv /home user textmode
> E:\download /download user textmode
> D:\root\bin /usr/bin user binmode
> D:\root\lib /usr/lib user binmode
> D:\root / user binmode
>
>After setup -u :-
>
> Device Directory Type Flags
> D:\export\home\shiv /home user textmode
> E:\download /download user textmode
> D:\root\bin /usr/bin user binmode
> D:\root\lib /usr/lib user binmode
> D:\root / user binmode
>
>Cheers.
>--
>shiv
>vihs@rocketmail.com
>
>Tom Weichmann wrote:
>>I know that setup.exe is a work in progress, and have heard that some
>>major re-construction is under way, but I would like to know if there
>>is a fix for this. Every time I update a package using setup -u foo
>>setup reverts my mount table back to the default, and re-writes
>>cygwin.bat deleting any modifications I have made.
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