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Re: Setup 2.57 woes...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 16:16
Subject: Re: Setup 2.57 woes...

> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:37:11AM -0700, Michael A. Chase wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
> >To: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
> >Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 02:31
> >Subject: Re: Setup 2.57 woes...
> >
> >
> >> On Monday 4 Jun 01, Michael A. Chase writes:
> >>>The final comment in that thread from Chris was that the FAQ is still
> >>>correct.  It's just that now that setup.exe honors existing mount
> >>>points, someone who 'knows what their doing' can split /usr/bin/ and
> >>>/bin/.  If you mention that it is possible, you should also mention
> >>>that it is strongly not recommended.
> >>
> >>I won't mention that it's possible to change anything.  I will simply
> >>remove the FAQ entry "Setup screwed up my mounts!" because it shouldn't
> >>do that any more.
> >
> >I wouldn't take it out quite yet.  The behavior when the user asks for
> >a new Cygwin root hasn't been completely settled yet.  It might change
> >in a way that looks like the old behavior.
>
> How so?  It should replace the root and leave other mounts alone.

So it would be ok to go from

   / -> c:\cygwin\
   /usr/bin/ -> c:\cygwin\bin\
   /usr/lib/ -> c:\cygwin\lib\
   /c/ -> c:\

to

   / -> c:\new_cygwin\
   /usr/bin/ -> c:\cygwin\bin\
   /usr/lib/ -> c:\cygwin\lib\
   /c/ -> c:\

I would want to replace any mounts that are physically under / when
installing to a new Cygwin root.

> David's analysis is correct.



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