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Re: Make a package never update
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Make a package never update
- From: "Matthew O. Persico" <persicom at acedsl dot com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 21:10:12 -0400
- References: <3B9C240A.2929.1CCCE86B@localhost>
"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>
> Matthew O. Persico schrieb am 2001-09-09, 19:07:
>
> >I do not want perl updated on my cygwin - I prefer to hack at it from a
> >perl built under windows (don't ask). If I never want the perl under
> >cygwin updated, is it sufficient to remove it from cygwin using
> >setup.exe? Will that prevent future updates from ever being shown to me?
>
> Setup.exe will offer you every package that is not installed at your
> system, always the latest available version.
> If you have no perl installed, it will be offered and you will have to
> unselect it everytime.
>
Hmm. Sounds like it's time for a patch - adding "Never" to the list of
possibilities for a package update. Now I have to find the setup.exe
code.
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