On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:34:32 -0400, Greg Mosier typed: > Hi list, > > It's been a while since I've played with cygwin and I've just > recently came back to it. Well... I had the same problems this > time as I did in the past, only last time I wasn't aware that there > was a problem. It seems that there are quite a few users that have > experienced this same issue, the one where the postinstall doesn't > happen as it should. The fix for the problem is so amazingly > simple that all those that have looked at the problem before and > examined the log files and didn't find the problem should be > ashamed. > > I'm posting this to the list as I never did find a fix for it on > the net, which I still can't believe. When you see someone mention > this problem tell them to have a look at setup.log.full for this: > > [base-files] action=Skip trust=curr installed=none src?=no > categories=All, Base [Prev] ver=2.5-1 > > You see, I never selected for it to skip this, where inlies a > massive oversight on someone's part along the way. When I setup > cygwin I changed default to install on 'All' and for some totally > obscure reason, it seems, when you do this, the damned installer > decides it needs to skip base-files and aspell-dev. Mind you, out > of the endless packages it is amazingly odd that it decides to skip > these two, and these two alone. > > Anyhow, I hope this helps someone.
Can this fix be applied to solve this problem: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Matthew O. Persico -- 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/
