----- Original Message ----- From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:56:04 -0400 (EDT) To: peter garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: feature requests for setup
> > - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself > > has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements. > > It already does that. > > > - If installing from the local directory, possibly only do the MD5 > > checksum for packages that are actually going to be installed, > > because it now checks every package whenever it starts. Or > > at least after an install cycle is complete, allow an option to go back, > > so the recheck can skipped, or even both these ideas. > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. Also see below. > > > - That "packages" directory default. Sometimes setup drops "packages" > > from its default, allowing very wierd directory hierarchies indeed, > > if downloading from somewhere. From bitter experience, I always make > > sure this particular field ends in "packages". > > I don't get this one at all. What are you trying to say? > Hi, i had a bad day yesterday, today I see the little scroll bars between Bin and Src, also the "back" key at the point it asks for the desktop icon. Also I think my packages confusion was from the older setup, because the newer one doesnt do it now. I apologise to the mailing list for most of the points in my post, which are erroneous. What wasnt happenning though, was that I had setup version 2.249.2.10 installed locally, when I went "download from internet", at the ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au site, it would install cygwin-1.3.22-1.tar.bz2, which had an old cygwin dll, and not cygwin-1.5.5-1.tar.bz2, which had the new one. The old one would fail with most of the utilities such as ls.exe, with a "__getreent" failure. When I downloaded setup version 2.340.2.5, it found and downloaded the package with the newer dll, as well as others. I think. In my local cache of packages, I had been using experimental packages, as well as a locally compiled and patched snapshot, so this could have something to do with it. -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
