On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:06:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 14 10:25, Markus Hoenicka wrote: >> 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. > >You could create a symlink in \\servername\path pointing to >\\servername\path\to\Downloads\[url_of_mirror] to workaround this >I guess. > >The only other way to fix this is to fix setup. A long time ago I >tweaked setup to get rid of the MAX_PATH path length restriction, but >apparently this only worked for the files to install, not for the >archive files. I'm just looking through the setup code for downloading >files, and it still calls the OS ANSI file API exclusively, rather then >the UNICODE API, which is the culprit for this problem. > >Sigh. This is a lot of work still to do.
I started down the path of removing the #(&# encoded mirror path names in the download directory a while ago. I will try to get that rolled out again. That won't solve the problem but it should help a bit. In the meantime, I'd suggest at least renaming the [url_of_mirror] to something like "A". I think that should still work with setup. cgf -- 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
