Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

And, absolutely the last word tonight, here is a hitherto undiscovered way in which old setup misbehaves and new setup does not. It might help locate any current procedural flaw in new setup. Unmount everything. Build a new directory c:\Cygwin\etc\setup and locate an up-to-date installed.db th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

> I asked was whether you could make a stock Cygwin system > on *your* machine and reproduce the issue, just to figure > out if this is an issue in setup because of the non-default > Cygwin location, or there are other things different about > your system. I did this. I built a brand new Cygwin l

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, fergus wrote: > > Knowing setup.exe as I do, I'm guessing (and this is only a guess) > > that you start setup on the system and manually specify the system > > root to be the root of your unmounted filesystem instead of the > > default 'C:\cygwin'. > > You're absolutely right.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

> Knowing setup.exe as I do, I'm guessing (and this is only a guess) > that you start setup on the system and manually specify the system > root to be the root of your unmounted filesystem instead of the > default 'C:\cygwin'. You're absolutely right. My system is located at h:/ where h: is a mo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, fergus wrote: > Thank you for all the improvements. Don't want to repeat the long > description at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00658.html so can > I just comment: the new 2.573.2.2 fails to spot an up-to-date but > unmounted Cygwin system so, instead of merely re-mou

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

The new version of setup fails to accommodate the following approved practice (ie. recommended on this list). A user who has iterated to a bespoke system and who wishes to build it elsewhere (or who just wants to build a tailored system from scratch) need not follow the painful process of sele

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

Thank you for all the improvements. Don't want to repeat the long description at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00658.html so can I just comment: the new 2.573.2.2 fails to spot an up-to-date but unmounted Cygwin system so, instead of merely re-mounting it, attempts to download and inst

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

I've updated the version of setup.exe at to version 2.573.2.2. This version incorporates a number of bug fixes and new features, as listed below. - Fix crash when trying to MD5 a non-existant package file that failed to download. - Don't append a trailing slas