Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-30 Thread peterpan1616
Thanks for clarifications. The problems is the use of setup.exe to download the distribution. I tired to use wget pointing the same mirror site (heanet.ie) but i download only the directory structures reported in index.html files. Could you suggest me right options to wget (like installation of cy

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peterpan1616 wrote: I'm a bit confuse. I was thinking that setup.exe was a sort of wizard able to download what you want and selecting the options 'install' he download ALL. Now I'm not sure. If I use a program like wget, I obtain all from the repository but how match the dependency? If I downloa

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread peterpan1616
I'm a bit confuse. I was thinking that setup.exe was a sort of wizard able to download what you want and selecting the options 'install' he download ALL. Now I'm not sure. If I use a program like wget, I obtain all from the repository but how match the dependency? If I download cygwin today on this

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peterpan1616 wrote: I can also say that using the setup.exe and trying to go in the same mirrors, using the 'install' options, ash is marked like keep and probably setup do not download it. Yes, relying on 'setup.exe' to download you everything you need from a machine that already has Cygwin in

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread peterpan1616
Yes, I used always the same mirror in Ireland because it is fast. But how can solve the problem of the dependencies? How written before, if I use the 'install' option the ash is marked keep and jumped. Do you have advices about? On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peterpan1616 wrote: Why, exactly? The answer is: exactly I do not know why. Looking in the repository, effectively the ash package there isn't. But consider also that, the same repository, directly download on a pc do not make problems. If the PC without problems was installed from the same re

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread peterpan1616
I can also say that using the setup.exe and trying to go in the same mirrors, using the 'install' options, ash is marked like keep and probably setup do not download it. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > peterpan1616 wrote: >> >> I can reinstall all

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread peterpan1616
Why, exactly? The answer is: exactly I do not know why. Looking in the repository, effectively the ash package there isn't. But consider also that, the same repository, directly download on a pc do not make problems. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peterpan1616 wrote: I can reinstall all but I have some doubts to be able to run a bash script in a cmd window (remember that in the bash window not run anything) You can't run anything because "/bin" isn't in your path most likely. Using fully qualified paths will work in this case. And posti

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peterpan1616 wrote: If you are speaking about the files under the temp directory and parallel to the repository with name http%3a%2f%fftp.heanet .etc are exactly like when I finished to download the repository (in this case date and time is 29/07/2008 10:20AM (for me this morning now for me

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread peterpan1616
I can reinstall all but I have some doubts to be able to run a bash script in a cmd window (remember that in the bash window not run anything) On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > peterpan1616 wrote: >> >> All considered, for debugging purpose I can er

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread peterpan1616
If you are speaking about the files under the temp directory and parallel to the repository with name http%3a%2f%fftp.heanet .etc are exactly like when I finished to download the repository (in this case date and time is 29/07/2008 10:20AM (for me this morning now for me is 11PM) On Tue, Jul

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peterpan1616 wrote: All considered, for debugging purpose I can erase again all, erase the environment variable and I can rerun all again avoiding the creation of the home dir? More or less in 1 hour I can verify the result What do you think about? If 'setup.log*' doesn't show anything of inter

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peterpan1616 wrote: Thanks for your feedback. I looked in the postinstall directory and all the file have .done how you can see in the attached file Only the joe-manifest.lst do not have .done but there is joe.sh.done Hm. That leads me to believe that although the scripts were "run", they were

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread peterpan1616
All considered, for debugging purpose I can erase again all, erase the environment variable and I can rerun all again avoiding the creation of the home dir? More or less in 1 hour I can verify the result What do you think about? On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:30:22PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >peterpan1616 wrote: >>I re do all the procedure that I can summarize: 1) from www.cygwin.com >>I download setup.exe on the PC_A 2) Using PC_A I download all the >>distribution fron HEANET.IE in the temp dir c:/temp_cygwin 3) On t

straightforward cygcheck enhancement (was Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times)

2008-07-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:30:22PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >From your cygcheck output, I have to conclude that 'setup.exe' didn't >run its postinstall scripts. You can verify this by looking in >'c:\cygwin\etc\postinstall' for any scripts without a '.done' suffix. It just occurred to me

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread peterpan1616
Thanks for your feedback. I looked in the postinstall directory and all the file have .done how you can see in the attached file Only the joe-manifest.lst do not have .done but there is joe.sh.done On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > peterpan1616 wrote

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peterpan1616 wrote: I re do all the procedure that I can summarize: 1) from www.cygwin.com I download setup.exe on the PC_A 2) Using PC_A I download all the distribution fron HEANET.IE in the temp dir c:/temp_cygwin 3) On the PC_B I erased all related to cygwin (file, directory and using regedit

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-29 Thread peterpan1616
> I think you need to stop repeating that you are having a problem now and > start sending cygcheck output as referenced at the above web page. There > are other hints for reporting problems there too. > OK! > If you need to, run cygcheck directly from c:/cygwin/bin/cygcheck.exe . I can't do that.

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:59:04PM +0200, peterpan1616 wrote: >When I post the question, I was sure that the problem was my. >I was thinking: Probably I make some mistake. Using the mailing list, >if I am lucky, I can meet a kind vulonteer that explain me my >mistake. > >Now It looks like a bug/pr

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 06:30:28PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Using setup.exe for this task makes me think that people believe >>setup.exe is doing something mysterious. It really isn't. Even if you >>wanted to go to the effort of unpacking tar.bz2 files you could st

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: Using setup.exe for this task makes me think that people believe setup.exe is doing something mysterious. It really isn't. Even if you wanted to go to the effort of unpacking tar.bz2 files you could still do it all with bash, tar, and mount, avoiding setup.exe entirel

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread peterpan1616
When I post the question, I was sure that the problem was my. I was thinking: Probably I make some mistake. Using the mailing list, if I am lucky, I can meet a kind vulonteer that explain me my mistake. Now It looks like a bug/problem. If this is, I will be happy to help the debugging of this sy

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:48:16PM +0200, peterpan1616 wrote: >Really interesting but useless to solve my problem So why not help us help you with the problem by reading what's here: >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html And sending some more details? cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> For the time being, you should be able to dump the mount table to a .bat >> file with "mount -m" and then run the .bat on the system that has the >> copied installation. >> This technique probably won't w

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread peterpan1616
Really interesting but useless to solve my problem On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Ralph Hempel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> For the time being, you should be able to dump the mount table to a .bat >> file with "mount -m" and then run the .bat on the system that ha

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread peterpan1616
What run for you is exactly what was running for me few months ago. Now I tired at least 3 times to download all application copy all the repo, run setup.exe without success On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! I do something similar some days ago. > Als

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: For the time being, you should be able to dump the mount table to a .bat file with "mount -m" and then run the .bat on the system that has the copied installation. This technique probably won't work in Cygwin 1.7.x when it is released, though. Funny enough, this is t

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread peterpan1616
To avoid this possibility, I tried to erase all about cygwin and cygnus erasing dirs and also using regedit and erasing everything related to cygwin and cygnus the result do not change On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote on 28 July 2008 17:44

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread peterpan1616
What I mean exactly is: go to www.cygwin.com download setup.exe Run setup.exe and chose download in local directory (that usually I call temp_cygwin on d disk I select Install than start the process. At the end I have my local directory d:\temp_cygwin where into there are 2 file *.log and the other

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:59:20PM +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: >Hi! I do something similar some days ago. >Also i try to copy the installation folder in another pc, but once >launched the bash console, i was not able to do anything. The only way >i find usefull is to download packages in local, then

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! I do something similar some days ago. Also i try to copy the installation folder in another pc, but once launched the bash console, i was not able to do anything. The only way i find usefull is to download packages in local, then copy the installer and the local repository folder in the seocnd

RE: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote on 28 July 2008 17:44: >> prompt is not colored (like when it run) and the prompt is bash x y. >> In this condition, I'm not able to run any command (e.g. ls command >> not fund vi command not found and so on). > > That is the result of the postinstall scripts not being run o

Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Brian Dessent
peterpan1616 wrote: > If I copy the same directory on another pc an run setup.exe at the > end, i push on the icon on the desktop an I obtain a window where the Do you mean you copy the directory of .tar.bz2 packages and then use setup to install them, or you copy the installed directory? The fo