Setup strangeness

Wed Oct 11 10:00:00 GMT 2000

> How does setup figure out what is installed? The
> /etc/setup/installed.db only shows packages that setup let us
> install.

/etc/setup/installed.db is the only place where setup keeps track of
what it already has installed. Simply removing the fileutils line,
for example, lets you re-install fileutils.
However, if setup doesn't give you an "uninstall" option for
fileutils, then it may not be installed at all. Look in
setup.log.full for the details of what happened.
> Any ideas? Also, where's the source to setup? I didn't see it on
> ftp://sources.redhat.com .

It's in with the cygwin sources, in src/winsup/cinstall.
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