From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1583 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2013 09:26:10 -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 1571 invoked by uid 89); 14 Nov 2013 09:26:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtprelay03.ispgateway.de Received: from Unknown (HELO smtprelay03.ispgateway.de) (80.67.31.30) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:26:08 +0000 Received: from [80.67.16.116] (helo=webmail.df.eu) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1VgtBW-0003fC-KA for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:25:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:26:00 -0000 From: Markus Hoenicka To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: updating TeXLive packages exceeds Windows path length limit Message-ID: X-Sender: markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail X-Df-Sender: bWFya3VzLmhvZW5pY2thQG1ob2VuaWNrYS5kZQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00262.txt.bz2 Hi, I've just downloaded the latest setup-x86.exe to update my Cygwin installation on a Windows XP box. While setup downloads the required packages, it stops with a message saying: Can't open \\servername\path\to\Downloads\[url_of_mirror]\path\to\texlive-collection-documentation-base-20130529-1.tar.bz2.tmp for writing: No such file or directory Problem is, if I try to create a file with the same name manually in Windows Explorer, I apparently hit the maximum allowed path length just after the 't' in 'tmp'. In other words, the package filename is exactly two characters too long on my system and using my closest mirror. Setup exits without updating the system. Is there a way to fix this? I know that I can try and find a mirror with a shorter URL, but I expect others to bump into the same problem sooner or later. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 -- 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