Ralph Hempel wrote on 31 October 2008 15:04:
> One thing nagging in the background is whether or not you can/should
> update your cygwin installation while any Cygwin processes are running.
Well, there's obviously going to be a bash process running if you do things
that way, but hopefully that will just cause the replace-on-reboot mechanism
to come into play. You will, however, have to /expect/ to reboot every time
if you insist on launching setup from bash. (It should be possible to launch
it from cmd.exe or from a .bat file without this inconvenience.)
It is, in general, very much for the best if you /don't/ do things this way.
Replace-on-reboot can help, but I think it's quite possible that postinstall
scripts might fail if you have a half-updated installation waiting for a
reboot to become valid again.
cheers,
DaveK
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