On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Tim Gunter wrote: > 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?
The setup package cache is just what it says: a cache. If you wish, you can blow the whole thing away, and setup will reconstruct it eventually. Some of the older (unneeded) packages will not be re-downloaded. For a smarter way to clean your cache, search this list for "clean_setup.pl". > > 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 Setup doesn't overwrite /etc/setup/installed.db in place. Instead it creates /etc/setup/installed.db.new, writes the necessary content to it, then removes /etc/setup/installed.db and renames the .new file. I'm guessing the remove operation fails for you -- check the Windows ACLs on /etc/setup, is your user allowed to delete files? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/