Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

[Chris Taylor <chris at equate dot dyndns dot org>]

Herb Martin wrote:
> Chris Taylor
>
> > > All I wish to do is make Setup aware of this if it
> > > is possible.  
> > >
> > > For now, I must (carefully) ensure that setup doesn't
> > > overwrite my "good" version with the default.
> >
> > If you reinstalled all of exim, you don't really need the cygwin
> > version.. So you want to edit the /etc/setup/installed.db and 
> > give it an
> > artificially high number, say 99.999, as the installed 
> > version of exim.
> > This will stop cygwin from ever overwriting your installation of exim
> > (unless the version ever gets higher than that.. unlikely in our
> > lifetimes to be honest)
> >
> > Chris
>
>
> Thank you Chris, that is precisely the information
> I was seeking.

No problem Herb, but I only knew that because Eric mentioned it 4 or 5 
messages prior to me in this thread - as a way to prevent setup from 
updating the package.
At that time though, I don't believe it was clear that you'd updated ALL 
of exim (or indeed what package it was). We thought you'd updated a 
single file or something - a lib for example.
Anyway, glad you're sorted now.


Chris

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