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Re: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20040802.tar.bz2 contains extra files?
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:59:32PM -0400, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:00:00PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> >I downloaded and installed
> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20040802.tar.bz2
> >
> >and was a bit surprised to see that it included files normally in the
> >w32api and mingw-runtime packages as well as a few other files (and
> >/bin/dumper.exe which is normally in the cygwin package was missing).
>
> dumper missing is a problem. The extra files are not.
Ok, I can live with that. It does seem to me that it creates a
problem further down the line: if one installs a snapshot and later
upgrades to the next version of the cygwin package, cygcheck would not
report anything to indicate that what is installed is in any way
non-standard.
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