New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[Andrej Borsenkow]

I am not sure how to use new version-selection feature.

I said "install from internet". After I connected to mirror and downloaded
setup.ini I got a screen that looked like:

20000823-1 -> Keep ash
... like this for all other packages)
    @ 20000823-1 ash
    ... (like this for all packages)

where @ is this character I have to click. Of course, version numbers were
specific for each package. Clicking on @ sign changed version number to
"Skip".

Leaving everything as above, I clicked on "Next". It downloaded two updated
packages (ash and inetutils) and started to install *everything* I had in my
local directory (that is, everything from latest and contrib).

So, the questions are

- can I see, what package version is currently installed? And what version(s)
is(are) currently available on server?

- what does "Keep" mean? With my English I understand it as "keep installed
version".

- why it reinstalled everything? And where do I select which version to
install (assuming, more than one is available)?

-andrej

Have a nice DOS!
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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[DJ Delorie]

> - can I see, what package version is currently installed? And what version(s)
> is(are) currently available on server?

The first column is supposed to be the already-installed version.  The
middle (second) column is supposed to cycle among the versions that
are available to be installed, or "keep" and later "uninstall".

> - what does "Keep" mean? With my English I understand it as "keep
> installed version".

Yes, that's what it means.

> - why it reinstalled everything?

I don't know.  It's not supposed to, unless you deleted
/etc/setup/installed.db or selected a different installation
directory.

> And where do I select which version to install (assuming, more than
> one is available)?

If more than one version are available (this has never happened yet)
then the second column would cycle between "keep" and *all* the
available versions.

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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[Robert Mecklenburg]

DJ> The first column is supposed to be the already-installed version.  The
DJ> middle (second) column is supposed to cycle among the versions that
DJ> are available to be installed, or "keep" and later "uninstall".
DJ> ...
DJ> I don't know.  It's not supposed to, unless you deleted
DJ> /etc/setup/installed.db or selected a different installation
DJ> directory.
DJ> ...
DJ> If more than one version are available (this has never happened yet)
DJ> then the second column would cycle between "keep" and *all* the
DJ> available versions.

Hmmm, I feel like a complete dope for asking, but *how* do I select
these items.  I've just downloaded setup.exe into d:/tmp (which was
completely empty) and executed it.  When it presents the list of
packages clicking on any part of the scrollable list does nothing.
Clicking on the Prev, Curr, Exp buttons does nothing.  I can click on
words, arrows, numbers, columns, rows, (with left or right buttons)
and nothing at all happens.  When I eventually click "Next ->" it
immediately says "Nothing needed to be installed".

What am I missing?

Thanks for any clues...
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Robert

37 OOPS:tmp$ cygcheck -s -b -r

Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Thu Aug 24 11:37:09 2000

WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195 Service Pack 1

Path:	/d/users/mecklen/bin
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	/d/Program Files/JBuilder35/bin

SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: C:\WINNT

HOME = `/d/users/mecklen'
PWD = `/d/tmp'

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
  (default) = `/cygdrive'
  cygdrive flags = 0x00000020
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/c
  (default) = `c:\'
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/d
  (default) = `d:\'
  flags = 0x00000000
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options


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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[DJ Delorie]

> Hmmm, I feel like a complete dope for asking, but *how* do I select
> these items.

None of the packages have more than one version available at the moment,
so you just won't get any fun options.

If you click on the second column (the one with the spinning-arrows
icon) it will cycle between "Keep" or "Skip", and whatever versions
are available.  If there's no spinning arrow icon, then there just
isn't anything to select.  When we get around to adding an "uninstall"
icon, you'll at least be able to select beween "keep" and "uninstall" ;-)

The prev/next/exp buttons only work when there's more than one version
of a package available.

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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[David A. Cobb]

Robert Mecklenburg wrote:
> 
> DJ> The first column is supposed to be the already-installed version.  The
> DJ> middle (second) column is supposed to cycle among the versions that
> DJ> are available to be installed, or "keep" and later "uninstall".
> DJ> ...
> DJ> I don't know.  It's not supposed to, unless you deleted
> DJ> /etc/setup/installed.db or selected a different installation
> DJ> directory.
> DJ> ...
> DJ> If more than one version are available (this has never happened yet)
> DJ> then the second column would cycle between "keep" and *all* the
> DJ> available versions.
> 
> Hmmm, I feel like a complete dope for asking, but *how* do I select
> these items.  I've just downloaded setup.exe into d:/tmp (which was
> completely empty) and executed it.

When you download into the "completely empty" directory, I think.  I
know that used to be the rule but not, I guess, any more.

On my machine the setup leaves all those tar.gz files in a tree
beginning where it (setup) resides.  I have, e.g.
"E:/Cygwin_install/latest" and "./contrib" branches.  Perhaps you've
lost something.

Or, perhaps, I didn't clean up something I should have!

-- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"Don't buy or use crappy software"
"By the grace of God I am a Christian man, 
 by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French,
tr.]

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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[Mohammed Abdel'al]

ad me too
same here
ash latest/ash/ash-20000627.tar.gz 34393

Mohammed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com>
To: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?


> Kevin Layer wrote:
> > 
> >>>
> >>> What does it say in /etc/setup/installed.db ?
> > 
> > ash latest/ash/ash-20000627.tar.gz 34393
> > 
> 
> Add me to the list.  My /etc/setup/installed.db includes
> 
>  ash latest/ash/ash-20000627.tar.gz 34393
> 
> But setup "Cygwin Net Setup version 2.4" downloaded today (8/24)
> lists 
>  ash               -20000823     keep
> 
> Looks as though setup never even looks at the local database.
> -- 
> David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
> "Don't buy or use crappy software"
> "By the grace of God I am a Christian man, 
>  by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French,
> tr.]
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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[David A. Cobb]

Kevin Layer wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> What does it say in /etc/setup/installed.db ?
> 
> ash latest/ash/ash-20000627.tar.gz 34393
> 

Add me to the list.  My /etc/setup/installed.db includes

 ash latest/ash/ash-20000627.tar.gz 34393

But setup "Cygwin Net Setup version 2.4" downloaded today (8/24)
lists 
 ash               -20000823     keep

Looks as though setup never even looks at the local database.
-- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"Don't buy or use crappy software"
"By the grace of God I am a Christian man, 
 by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French,
tr.]

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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[Kevin Layer]

>> 
>> What does it say in /etc/setup/installed.db ?

ash latest/ash/ash-20000627.tar.gz 34393


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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[DJ Delorie]

What does it say in /etc/setup/installed.db ?

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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[Kevin Layer]

>> 
>> > 2. I ran setup.exe again, to install it, so I selected "install from
>> >    current directory".  After hitting Next-> twice, it tells me that
>> >    the current version of ash is 20000823.  In this window,
>> 
>> It's a bug in setup.  Try just "install from internet" and see if it
>> gets it right.

Nope, it still says that 823 is the current version.

This is no big deal for me.  I just like to update periodically.  I
can wait until the setup.exe bug is fixed.

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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[DJ Delorie]

> 2. I ran setup.exe again, to install it, so I selected "install from
>    current directory".  After hitting Next-> twice, it tells me that
>    the current version of ash is 20000823.  In this window,

It's a bug in setup.  Try just "install from internet" and see if it
gets it right.

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Re: New setup.exe 2.3 - how to select what to install?

[Kevin Layer]

I just downloaded setup.exe 2.4.  Here's what I did:

1. I ran setup.exe and selected "download from internet to current
   directory". It downloaded one file, latest/ash/ash-20000823.tar.gz.

2. I ran setup.exe again, to install it, so I selected "install from
   current directory".  After hitting Next-> twice, it tells me that
   the current version of ash is 20000823.  In this window,
   **nothing** is mouse-able.  Some of the items in the `Current'
   column have version numbers some don't (the ash does, as above).
   The `New' column has `Keep' in every row.

The date on /bin/sh.exe is 6/27 not 8/23.

- Kevin Layer

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