On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:40:09PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > If you moved the tarballs, setup won't be able to find them, and will > re-download them. The log files don't matter, and will be created anew > (the ones that matter sit in /var/log, anyway). i have not moved any of the tarballs that the last few updates have downloaded, only tarballs from some months ago. when i look in the directory where the new tarballs are supposed to be going, there are no recently modified files except for setup.ini. shouldn't there be the tarballs for the files setup is downloading and trying to install?
> Make sure /etc/setup and /etc/setup/installed.db are writeable by you. both are writeable by me. installed.db, however, is an empty file. there are installed.db.new and installed.db.old files which are both non-empty. any ideas? thanks for your help Igor. --tim -- 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/
