Garry Heaton wrote: > I recently updated my Cygwin to 1.3.20 and I save all downloads to the > ftp directory within C:\Cygwin before installing from the local > directory. The problem is that, over time, the setup.log file seems to > have lost track of what I've downloaded such that I can't install > packages that I've downloaded. Some categories are completely missing, > such as "System". I can't start from scratch again as I'm on a 29k > dial-up connection. Is there any way of re-initialising the setup.log > and re-installing what I've already downloaded? > > This problem seems to develop when downloads are unsuccessful, for > whatever reason. It seems the setup.log gets it wrong somewhere.
setup.log is irrelevant. It is a plain text human readable log. setup.ini is the important file. It should be re-downloaded every time you use setup.exe in a "from Internet" mode. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
