From: Aaron Schneider <notstop@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Setup shows ? instead of size for some packages
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP4611E9556777BB09A09EE78CEC00@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <501370E3.60506@mvseac.com>
On 28/07/2012 6:56, L Anderson wrote:
> Call me slow to notice but I'm seeing more packages appearing with size
> ? mark in the "View" window when I run cygwin setup. Also, I notice
> that most, if not all the packages, seem to be related to source or
> libraries. I've read the setup documentation, googled, and searched the
> mail list but can't seem to find as answer as to what's behind it.
>
> Would someone in the know please tell me what causes it, what it means,
> and is it a problem?
>
> Some of the entries I see are:
>
> skip Gnome ? atk 1.0: Acc. Toolkit library (sources)
> skip Libs ? boost: Boost C++ libraries (source)
> Skip X11 ? cairo: Cross-dev. vec. grap. lib.(source)
> 1.0-2 Keep Misc ? clear
> 1.2.0-1 Keep Misc ? d
> Skip Gnome ? dbus-glib: Freedsktp msg bus sys. (source)
> Skip Devel,L.? eventlog: Structured event logging library
> Skip X11 ? fltk_gdi: Fst Lgt Toolkit-GDI ver.(sources)
>
> Additional Information:
> - Installing updates from my own local release mirror updated today.
> - Running Win XP Pro
> - Running cygwin 1.7.16-1
> - Setup.exe version 2.774
> - Setup.ini shows setup-timestamp: 1343379014 and setup-version: 2.774.
>
>
I think that happens because the packages you downloaded once are not
present in the mirror you are getting the list from. Cygwin gets the
size of a installed package from the present list that you get from the
mirror. Try reinstalling and see what happens.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-28 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-28 4:57 L Anderson
2012-07-28 13:36 ` Aaron Schneider [this message]
2012-07-28 21:34 ` szgyg
2012-07-29 0:55 ` Aaron Schneider
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2012-07-31 22:35 ` szgyg
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