From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32264 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2011 15:05:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 32144 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Nov 2011 15:04:56 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:04:39 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5C5012C0486; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:04:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:05:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup announcement Message-ID: <20111121150436.GA17686@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20111121095237.GN21190@calimero.vinschen.de> <4ECA5FFF.4070309@dronecode.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ECA5FFF.4070309@dronecode.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00097.txt.bz2 On Nov 21 14:28, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 21/11/2011 09:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > most of the changes and fixes in the new setup.exe release from this > > weekend are yours per the ChangeLog. I don't know exactly what to write > > in an announcement. Here's what I have so far. Can you please have a > > look and revise it? > > Sure, some suggestions interleaved > > > - Now that mintty has become part of the default installation, setup will > > create desktop and start menu shortcuts called "Cygwin Terminal", which > > point to mintty, starting your default shell as noted in /etc/passwd. > > > > - The desktop and start menu shortcuts use new icons. > > > > - Remove "Prev" button from Chooser page. The behaviour was confusing > > and unnecessary. > > > > - In unattanded mode, if packages were selected on command line, > > install only these, not their dependencies. > > > > --- Is that correct? Or are the dependencies installed as well, > > but not unrelated packages? > > The change I made is supposed to prevent unrelated, already installed packages > from getting updated. So perhaps > > "In unattended mode, if packages were selected on command line, > install only those, don't also upgrade all installed packages" > > > - Improve progress bar display. > > "Various improvements so progress bar shows progress during operations which > may take a long time with a large number of packages selected." > > > - Fix behaviour when reading broken tar archives. > > "Fix hang when reading broken or pbzip2 compressed tar archives" > > > - Improve error messages related to reading and writing files. > > Also a few earlier changes you didn't mention: > > (2.739) > - Canonicalize mirror URLs so they always end with a '/' > > (2.740) > - Fix a bug which would lead to setup getting stuck on the dependency > checking progress page in unattended mode when a dependency of an already > installed package was not installed somehow. > > (2.741) > Correct the description of the -K option in help text Thanks! Announcement follows shortly. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat