Re: feature requests for setup

Re: feature requests for setup

[peter garrone]

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From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:56:04 -0400 (EDT)
To: peter garrone <pgarrone@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: feature requests for setup

> > - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself
> >    has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements.
> 
> It already does that.
> 
> > - If installing from the local directory, possibly only do the MD5
> >   checksum for packages that are actually going to be installed,
> >   because it now checks every package whenever it starts. Or
> >   at least after an install cycle is complete, allow an option to go back,
> >   so the recheck can skipped, or even both these ideas.
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.  Also see below.
> 
> > - That "packages" directory default. Sometimes setup drops "packages"
> >   from its default, allowing very wierd directory hierarchies indeed,
> >   if downloading from somewhere. From bitter experience, I always make
> >   sure this particular field ends in "packages".
> 
> I don't get this one at all.  What are you trying to say?
> 
Hi, i had a bad day yesterday, today I see the little scroll bars
between Bin and Src, also the "back" key at the point it asks for the desktop icon.
Also I think my packages confusion was from the older setup, because the newer one
doesnt do it now.

I apologise to the mailing list for most of the points in my post, which are erroneous.

What wasnt happenning though, was that I had setup version 2.249.2.10 installed locally, 
when I went "download from internet", at the ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au site,
it would install cygwin-1.3.22-1.tar.bz2, which had an old cygwin dll, and not
cygwin-1.5.5-1.tar.bz2, which had the new one. The old one would fail with most of
the utilities such as ls.exe, with a "__getreent" failure.
When I downloaded setup version 2.340.2.5, it
found and downloaded the package with the newer dll, as well as others. I think.

In my local cache of packages, I had been using experimental packages,
as well as a locally compiled and patched snapshot, so this could have something to do with it.


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Re: feature requests for setup

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, peter garrone wrote:

> Hi, I thought I would note some desirable features in setup
> that would save dickheads such as myself much time.
>
> - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself
>    has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements.

It already does that.

> - If installing from the local directory, possibly only do the MD5
>   checksum for packages that are actually going to be installed,
>   because it now checks every package whenever it starts. Or
>   at least after an install cycle is complete, allow an option to go back,
>   so the recheck can skipped, or even both these ideas.

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.  Also see below.

> - That "packages" directory default. Sometimes setup drops "packages"
>   from its default, allowing very wierd directory hierarchies indeed,
>   if downloading from somewhere. From bitter experience, I always make
>   sure this particular field ends in "packages".

I don't get this one at all.  What are you trying to say?

> - Have some of those little popup messages on the title, i.e. b -> binary,
>   s->source, after an interval the only b and s I can think of is
>   bachelors and spinsters. resizeable window perhaps.

You can't resize the window, but you *can* widen individual columns so
more of the title shows.  A resizeable chooser is in development.

> Dont get me wrong, my admiration for setup is boundless, mainly because
> it is the only thing that can punch through our corporate firewall, besides
> internet explorer. Be great to have source for it, or at least a cvs grab
> utility based on it.

<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html> tells you where to get
the sources.  Happy developing.
	Igor
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Re: feature requests for setup

[Rolf Campbell]

peter garrone wrote:
> - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself 
>    has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements.
It does.  After it's been 'officially' released.



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feature requests for setup

[peter garrone]

Hi, I thought I would note some desirable features in setup
that would save dickheads such as myself much time.

- Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself 
   has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements.

- If installing from the local directory, possibly only do the MD5
  checksum for packages that are actually going to be installed,
  because it now checks every package whenever it starts. Or
  at least after an install cycle is complete, allow an option to go back,
  so the recheck can skipped, or even both these ideas.

- That "packages" directory default. Sometimes setup drops "packages"
  from its default, allowing very wierd directory hierarchies indeed,
  if downloading from somewhere. From bitter experience, I always make
  sure this particular field ends in "packages".

- Have some of those little popup messages on the title, i.e. b -> binary,
  s->source, after an interval the only b and s I can think of is
  bachelors and spinsters. resizeable window perhaps.

Dont get me wrong, my admiration for setup is boundless, mainly because
it is the only thing that can punch through our corporate firewall, besides
internet explorer. Be great to have source for it, or at least a cvs grab
utility based on it.
  
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