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RE: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,"Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:13:54 +1000
- Subject: RE: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:09 PM
>
> Actaully, I think the long delay was the copy-on-reboot stage of the
> cygwin upgrade. I vaguely remember something about XFree needing to
> update a LOT of in use files, so setup puts those files in the
> copy-on-reboot list. Fonts? Anyway, copying hundreds of
> files, one at
> a time, can take a while...
X appears to have a lot of read only files, which setup fails (don't
know why) to delete, so falls back to copy-on-reboot replacement.
Rob