From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 104291 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2018 23:54:19 -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 104232 invoked by uid 89); 3 Mar 2018 23:54:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Interestingly X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 03 Mar 2018 23:54:17 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id sGykeqf3VYxCTsGyle4wcn; Sat, 03 Mar 2018 16:54:16 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=cav8UELM c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=D-UwxC7OjD-zHUfD_N4A:9 a=7Zwj6sZBwVKJAoWSPKxL6X1jA+E=:19 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: setup-x86_64.exe v2.889 doesn't select additionally downloaded packages when installing from local directory To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <8571f617c5a740608e267364827e7733@merl.com> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 23:54:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8571f617c5a740608e267364827e7733@merl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfMCyl25RCusy+e/iXk1ZDhSTACCaryhUkzgtpLLK1veQenIcxMZPH5BXmZC+LCt+3nP52dKlJEi8mB7bDfWcKkD7vbZ9sF2/5UqWvuXZ/yr/qOPIBmJT SU2uu88Y75YYOLzypbUoQ0JtVJXicvfCdzGH5fTCNJbe1TR0KCetpDrvcr30ztKmGIkM96l6J5BcNQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 On 2018-03-03 16:00, Robert Cohen wrote: > Summary of problem: > When installing Cygwin from a local directory, setup-x86_64.exe version > 2.889 doesn't list the packages that I additionally selected for download > when previously downloading to that directory, and the top line of the GUI > under Category view says "No packages found<->Default". > Continuing the install only installs the packages preselected by setup. > > Details: > To install a fresh version of Cygwin, I usually do this: Run > setup-x86_64.exe using "Download Without Installing", select some additional > packages, and then after everything finished, I rerun setup-x86_64.exe using > "Install from Local Directory", and then the GUI, under Category view, shows > "All <-> Default", beneath which is a hierarchical list including the > packages preselected by setup along with the additional ones that I selected > when downloading. >> Here's the problem: I performed the above process using today's version of > > setup-x86_64.exe from cygwin.com, which according to setup.ini is setup > version 2.889, and the "Download Without Installing" setup worked as > expected. However, when I next did "Install from Local Directory" using that > directory, instead of showing "All<->Default", it showed "No packages > found<->Default", and only the packages preselected by setup were not going > to be skipped. I tried changing "Default" to "Install" at the top level of > the list, but that then selected everything for install, not just the > preselected packages and the additional ones I had downloaded. I repeated > this process using a few different mirror sites for the download phase, but > that made no difference.> > Interestingly, if I copy an older version of setup-x86_64.exe into my > already-downloaded directory, e.g. setup-x86_64.exe version 2.880, the GUI is > able to find the selected packages that I had already downloaded using setup > version 2.889, after of course giving a few warnings about the current ini > file being from a newer version of setup. In other words, if I download using > setup v2.889, then when subsequently installing from that directory, setup > v2.889 doesn't know what additional packages I had selected, whereas setup > v2.880 does know.> > I'm wondering if I'm not doing something correctly, or if there is an issue > with version 2.889 of setup-x86_64.exe not finding packages that were > additionally selected for download. > > Version details: > The beginning of setup.ini in my download directory includes this: > release: cygwin > arch: x86_64 > setup-timestamp: 1519974241 > setup-version: 2.889 > > This was done on Windows 10 pro, using setup-x86_64.exe v2.889 downloaded > on March 3, 2018 UTC from cygwin.com, which currently indicates that the most recent > version of the Cygwin DLL is 2.10.0. What's shown when you do: > dir \etc\setup\installed.db or $ wc /etc/setup/installed.db May need a new setup selection for all downloaded/cached packages, unless there is another way to select these, which the previous release used by default. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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