Setup.exe update confusion

Setup.exe update confusion

[David Balažic]

Hi!

I just downloaded and started Setup.exe (version 2.708).

I have already Cygwin installed, I wnated just to update to newest state.

So I clicked Next, until I got to the package selection.

Before I used then to click the View button, to get a list of packages
that would be updated.

But today with this version, I have a View named "Pending" that has a
lot of packages listed (about 100).
The Current column is empty for all of them.

I am confused.

I expected a few packages liste, with existing Current version and
newer version listed under the New column.

What am I missing?

Regards,
David

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Re: Setup.exe update confusion

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 8/5/2010 11:42 AM, David Balažic wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just downloaded and started Setup.exe (version 2.708).
>
> I have already Cygwin installed, I wnated just to update to newest state.
>
> So I clicked Next, until I got to the package selection.
>
> Before I used then to click the View button, to get a list of packages
> that would be updated.
>
> But today with this version, I have a View named "Pending" that has a
> lot of packages listed (about 100).

"Pending" is the old "Partial" view.  It's been renamed.

> The Current column is empty for all of them.
>
> I am confused.
>
> I expected a few packages liste, with existing Current version and
> newer version listed under the New column.
>
> What am I missing?

I don't think too much.  I ran setup.exe 2.708 and setup.exe 2.697.
The same pages in each showed the same thing.  Although my list of
updates was smaller, not all the packages listed had a current field.
My list contained new dependencies for the packages being updated.
If there really are no packages listed with a "Current" version, I'd
say you're experiencing the result of setup.ini being updated with
previously missing packages for packages you have already installed.

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Re: Setup.exe update confusion

[David Balažic]

On 5 August 2010 18:00, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On 8/5/2010 11:42 AM, David Balažic wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I just downloaded and started Setup.exe (version 2.708).
>>
>> I have already Cygwin installed, I wnated just to update to newest state.
>>
>> So I clicked Next, until I got to the package selection.
>>
>> Before I used then to click the View button, to get a list of packages
>> that would be updated.
>>
>> But today with this version, I have a View named "Pending" that has a
>> lot of packages listed (about 100).
>
> "Pending" is the old "Partial" view.  It's been renamed.

Check.

>
>> The Current column is empty for all of them.
>>
>> I am confused.
>>
>> I expected a few packages liste, with existing Current version and
>> newer version listed under the New column.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> I don't think too much.  I ran setup.exe 2.708 and setup.exe 2.697.
> The same pages in each showed the same thing.  Although my list of
> updates was smaller, not all the packages listed had a current field.
> My list contained new dependencies for the packages being updated.
> If there really are no packages listed with a "Current" version, I'd
> say you're experiencing the result of setup.ini being updated with
> previously missing packages for packages you have already installed.

I started it again, and now the Pending view is empty.

The first time it had arj as the first package. I doubt anything depends on arj.

The first time I also tried different mirrors. With same result (lot
of packages in Pending).

Now I again tried 2 different mirrors and both show no packages Pending.

I did not install anything on the first occasion, I canceled the Setup.

I'm even more confused now...

Regards,
David

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Re: Setup.exe update confusion

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 8/5/2010 12:24 PM, David Balažic wrote:
> On 5 August 2010 18:00, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
> <>  wrote:
   ^^
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>  Thanks.


> I started it again, and now the Pending view is empty.

Ah, problem solved! ;-)

> The first time it had arj as the first package. I doubt anything depends on
> arj.

Package dependencies aren't alphabetically ordered.

> The first time I also tried different mirrors. With same result (lot
> of packages in Pending).
>
> Now I again tried 2 different mirrors and both show no packages Pending.
>
> I did not install anything on the first occasion, I canceled the Setup.
>
> I'm even more confused now...

Yeah, I can't explain what you saw and now all that's left is the story
of the smoking gun.  Well, I guess we'll hear about this again if it's
more than a passing issue.

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> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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Re: Setup.exe update confusion

[Marco Moreno]

On Aug 5, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> "Pending" is the old "Partial" view.  It's been renamed.
> 

Note that the tooltip still shows "Partial" instead of "Pending" when mousing over the View button.


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Re: Setup.exe update confusion

[Andy Koppe]

On 6 August 2010 19:38, Marco Moreno wrote:
>> "Pending" is the old "Partial" view.  It's been renamed.
>
> Note that the tooltip still shows "Partial" instead of "Pending" when mousing over the View button.

Thanks for the report.

Andy

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