Corinna Vinschen wrote: > When I start setup-1.7, it seems to find the already existing c:/cygwin > installation. Even though I choose "C:/cygwin-2" as installation path, > the new setup-2.ini content is compared against the already existing > installation. The result is that setup-1.7 offers to install only > the single changed package: cygwin itself.
Right, it reads /etc/setup/installed.db (where /etc is derived from the mount table) to see what the current versions are. > Why is setup using the information from the existing installation > even if I choose to install into another directory? Is it because > the mount points in the registry are looked at? That's not correct > anymore, given that the registry mount points are not used for the > new installation anyway. > > Is it possible to change setup so that it ignores the registry mount > points? And it must nort write new ones either, btw... Oh. Teaching it not to read or write to the mount table in the registry is going to be a lot more work than just telling it to read a different .ini file. I'll see what I can do, but until then I think we'll just have to tell people to do the switching manually (mount -m/umount -A). Brian
