From: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
To: tim.gunter@bioscrypt.com
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Setup cant open package database error?
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064521568.939.132.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030925165317.GA708@bioscrypt.com>
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On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 02:53, Tim Gunter wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:20:25PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Well, you could right-click on the directory in Explorer and select
> > Properties -> Security -> Advanced... I'm really not familiar with FAT32
> > filesystems - I think neither ntsec nor ntea work on them. Is there a
> > possibility of moving Cygwin to an NTFS partition? It would likely work
> > much better there anyway...
>
> there is no such tab on my system, i guess its probably better
> to run from NTFS.
>
> > Can you remove "/etc/setup/installed.db" by hand and rename
> > "/etc/setup/installed.db.new" to it? It might fix the problem, at least
> > for one setup run...
>
> i did this, and setup now behaves better and remembers that it
> just installed the new stuff. looking at the current installed.db
> file, and the output of "cygcheck -c", many packages that i
> have installed are no longer listed(Perl, openssh, etc.). is this
> information lost forever? atleast some of it appears in a
> different format in the installed.db.old file.
There have been a number of format changes to that file, but setup reads
them all (with no assurance if you have used third-party scripts that
may or may not write valid information).
All the lines in the file need to be of the one format though: you can't
copy line by line across.
Rob
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-25 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-24 18:10 Tim Gunter
2003-09-24 19:44 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-24 20:18 ` Tim Gunter
2003-09-24 21:00 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-24 21:03 ` Tim Gunter
2003-09-24 21:21 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-25 17:11 ` Tim Gunter
2003-09-25 20:42 ` Robert Collins [this message]
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