From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 83342 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2019 18:39:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 83304 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jun 2019 18:39:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy= X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:39:31 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id alg9hEjZ5ldkPalgAhwgmx; Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:39:30 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <87muioniop.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <2e00e327-37d9-ded2-6c11-1d7ad3adf069@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:39:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87muioniop.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-06/txt/msg00134.txt.bz2 On 2019-06-11 11:19, Achim Gratz wrote: > Keith Christian writes: >> Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option >> box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and >> continue?" > > You'd first have to teach setup to distinguish between fatal and > non-fatal errors. A missing package archive is always fatal as far as > setup is concerned (how did that happen anyway?). A mirror update failure, an unsafe mirror update process, or the latter leading to the former. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple