Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> There is no reason to be nervous about installing snapshots if you think
> a new release will solve a problem. A snapshot potentially always
> equals a new release. Snapshots never break things so severely that you
> can't recover by just reinstalling cygwin.
I checked out the FAQ on snapshot installation
http://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.snapshots
and it looks to be enough pain that I want to stick with setup.exe, if at
all possible. (I custom install several extra packages beyond the base
installation, but don't want to install all, and I really like how setup.exe
has memory of that.)
> And, yes, you should follow cygwin or cygwin-announce for update
announcements.
1.7.21 came out last week
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-07/msg00017.html
but I do not see a ctrl-c fix in it.
Even better, 1.7.22 just came out yesterday
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-07/msg00030.html
and I see this tantalizing bug fix:
- Fix issue with raise() not causing the process to exit with a signal
status. Also only set "dumped core" flag when it's a "kernel" signal.
See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-07/msg00251.html
That sounds a lot like a fix for the Ctrl-C bug discussed here.
I will gladly install 1.7.22 (heck, I will likely deinstall everything and
try the 64 bit version) to check out if it fixes the bug if there is an easy
way that I can go back to 1.7.18 using setup.exe.
I am having a bit of a hard time, however, finding a mirror that has 1.7.18
and which works with setup.exe. Some candidate I tried:
http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/release/cygwin/
http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/cygwin/release/cygwin/
http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwinmirror
Unfortunately, every time I try to run setup.exe and add one of the above
mirrors I get an error message saying something about "Unable to get setup.ini".
If anyone else has seen 1.7.22 fix their Ctrl-C bug, I will take your word
for it and try 1.7.22 myself.
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