Hi Brian, Thanks for your quick reply. The output of the two commands you asked for are:
> dir <CYGWIN-ROOT>\etc\setup\installed.db 03/03/2018 20:33 2,499 installed.db $ wc /etc/setup/installed.db 70 209 2499 /etc/setup/installed.db If I grep for one of the additional packages that I selected prior to download, e.g. "bc" from the Math category, it is not listed in the installed.db file. A directory for bc is present in the download directory, and it contains the file bc-1.06.95-2.tar.xz. Do you know if the ability to detect all available downloaded packages was intentionally removed from setup, or might this be a bug? Regards, Robert From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com <cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com> on behalf of Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2018 18:54 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup-x86_64.exe v2.889 doesn't select additionally downloaded packages when installing from local directory 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 <CYGWIN-ROOT>\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 -- 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
