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- From: "Houder" <houder at xs4all dot nl>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:11:01 +0100
- Subject: Although advertised on a different Cygwin mailing list ...
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Corinna wrote (on a different Cygwin mailing list, which I am not supposed to read):
Title: Setup patch to keep test version if test version installed
> Hi guys,
>
> I need a bit of feedback.
>
> One detail bugging me (and probably others as well) in Setup is this.
> If I chose to install a test version of a package, and then start Setup
> again, Setup will default to the current version of the package again.
> If I'm just a bit careless, I'll overwrite my test version with the curr
> version of this package. And another Setup run will be required to fix
> that ...
Yes, yes, yes, bugging me too.
> Then she wrote (in a follow-up message):
> I checked in code which fixes this issue, which simplifies the package
> choosing algorithm when clicking on the package line, and which
> implements the default package in a way which never "downgrades" a
> package without the user's explicit consent by choosing the lower
> package version manually. This is much more in line with the update
> mechanism in Linux package managers.
>
> I uploaded test builds of this setup to cygwin.com:
>
> https://cygwin.com/setup-test-x86.exe
> https://cygwin.com/setup-test-x86_64.exe
>
> Please give it a try.
Which I did. Satisfied user here. An user which never uses the keep/current/experimental
radio buttons, though (which I consider superfluous).
Thank you.
Henri
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