Shankar Unni wrote: > Pavel Tsekov asked: > >> Is it possible that the problematic box has X already installed >> on it ? If there is an older version of a package already >> installed, setup will try to upgrade it. > > No, it doesn't. The "current" column is blank. Also, there are no > XFree86 packages in the download directory from before, so that's not a > factor either, I think. > > Actually, that brings up a good point: how does setup decide if a > package has been installed, and what version of it? Where does it keep > this information?
/etc/setup/installed.db > Perhaps I had once installed and then removed XFree86 (I can't > remember), and that has left some droppings behind somewhere? More likely, it is a dependency that is pulling in XFree86. Try diffing "cygcheck -c" outputs between your 2 boxes. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
