Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours)

Ken Brown writes: > There's one final idea I'd like to throw out, possibly as an > alternative to Achim's perpetual postinstall scripts: It would be > useful to be able to specify that a certain package (such as > _autorebase, or my proposed _texlive_post) should always be selected > for *reinstall

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

Corinna Vinschen writes: > No? … in the sense of something almost, but not quite entirely unlike _autorebase. > From what I read here your _incautorebase would replace _autorebase > just fine. I'm not concerned about an exact replacement for the > rebaseall script. The idea would be to make _in

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours)

On Nov 13 10:46, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/13/2014 9:18 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Ok, now after a collegue of mine informed me about the existence of > >tsort (*blush*), I could finally produce some more info about loops > >in our dependencies. I wrote a simple script: > > > >awk '/^@ /{ left=

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours)

On 11/13/2014 9:18 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 11 12:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 10 22:33, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2014-11-10 22:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Dependency order of packages: libgcc1 base-cygwin cygwin dash tzcode libstdc++6 terminfo sed gzip libpcre1 grep libreadl

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours)

On Nov 11 12:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 10 22:33, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On 2014-11-10 22:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > >Dependency order of packages: libgcc1 base-cygwin cygwin dash tzcode > > >libstdc++6 terminfo sed gzip libpcre1 grep libreadline7 bash > > >libncursesw10 > > [sn

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On Nov 12 18:53, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> >Incremental autorebase packages and patched setup.exe available on > >> >request. > >> > >> I'd like to see them. Thanks. > > I'll upload them on the weekend latest, I'm a bit swamped at work. I'll > follow up on this in cygwi

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

Corinna Vinschen writes: >> >Incremental autorebase packages and patched setup.exe available on >> >request. >> >> I'd like to see them. Thanks. I'll upload them on the weekend latest, I'm a bit swamped at work. I'll follow up on this in cygwin-applications. > Yes, me too. > > Achim, does your

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On Nov 11 18:37, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/11/2014 12:08 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > >As Ken already correctly summarized, the autorebase postinstall script > >will never be marked as done by setup.exe, so it will be run on each > >install or update. The incremental part ensures that this step doesn't

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 11/11/2014 12:08 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: On Nov 11 10:02, Ken Brown wrote: Of course, this still doesn't solve the problem of making sure that the _autorebase postinstall script runs whenever the user installs a package containing DLLs. I wonder if we should reconsid

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

Corinna Vinschen writes: > I understand that you're patching setup to recognize the autorebase > package by name, but how does it recognize other "perpetual" postinstall > scripts ATM? I actually match an "_always" suffix before the file extension. So once such a file gets installed in /etc/posti

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On Nov 11 18:08, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > On Nov 11 10:02, Ken Brown wrote: > >> Of course, this still doesn't solve the problem of making sure that the > >> _autorebase postinstall script runs whenever the user installs a package > >> containing DLLs. I wonder if we shoul

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Nov 11 10:02, Ken Brown wrote: >> Of course, this still doesn't solve the problem of making sure that the >> _autorebase postinstall script runs whenever the user installs a package >> containing DLLs. I wonder if we should reconsider Achim's proposal. If I >> unders

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On Nov 11 10:02, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/11/2014 9:14 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > >On 11/11/2014 6:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Nov 10 22:33, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >>>On 2014-11-10 22:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > Dependency order of packages: libgcc1 base-cygwin cygwin dash tzcode > >

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 11/11/2014 9:14 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/11/2014 6:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 10 22:33, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2014-11-10 22:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Dependency order of packages: libgcc1 base-cygwin cygwin dash tzcode libstdc++6 terminfo sed gzip libpcre1 grep libreadli

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 11/11/2014 6:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 10 22:33, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2014-11-10 22:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Dependency order of packages: libgcc1 base-cygwin cygwin dash tzcode libstdc++6 terminfo sed gzip libpcre1 grep libreadline7 bash libncursesw10 [snip] Now that

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On Nov 10 22:33, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-11-10 22:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >Dependency order of packages: libgcc1 base-cygwin cygwin dash tzcode > >libstdc++6 terminfo sed gzip libpcre1 grep libreadline7 bash > >libncursesw10 > [snip] > > Now that I think about it, regardless of lib

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 2014-11-10 22:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Dependency order of packages: libgcc1 base-cygwin cygwin dash tzcode libstdc++6 terminfo sed gzip libpcre1 grep libreadline7 bash libncursesw10 [snip] Now that I think about it, regardless of libgcc1, that still doesn't make much sense. sed, grep,

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 2014-11-04 02:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 3 19:03, Achim Gratz wrote: Dependencies are not evaluated at all when installing or running scripts. That's not correct. From the dependencies, setup generates a dependency graph which is used to get a sequential order in which to call the

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

Ken Brown writes: > That's now what I see here, unless I'm badly confused about what POSIX > sort order is. I did an update a few days ago in which the > postinstall scripts were run in the following order: > > update-info-dir.sh > autorebase.bat > wget.sh Yes you are right. Sorry, I should have

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On Nov 3 19:03, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Off the top of my head I don't know how hard that would be, but it > > doesn't sound like an especially bad idea to me. Au contraire. > > It should be quite easy since the postinstall scripts are run in POSIX > sort order. Just g

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 11/3/2014 1:03 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Off the top of my head I don't know how hard that would be, but it doesn't sound like an especially bad idea to me. Au contraire. It should be quite easy since the postinstall scripts are run in POSIX sort order. That's now

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

Corinna Vinschen writes: > Off the top of my head I don't know how hard that would be, but it > doesn't sound like an especially bad idea to me. Au contraire. It should be quite easy since the postinstall scripts are run in POSIX sort order. Just give the script a name like 1_autorebase.bat

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On Nov 3 15:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 3 07:43, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 11/3/2014 5:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Nov 2 13:02, Ken Brown wrote: > > >>On 10/24/2014 3:11 AM, Don MacDougall wrote: > > >>>Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/updmap line 59. > > >>>

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On Nov 3 07:43, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/3/2014 5:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 2 13:02, Ken Brown wrote: > >>On 10/30/2014 6:27 PM, Don MacDougall wrote: > >>>So, why the > >>>postinst scripts failed to run before, now becomes an academic matter for > >>>me. > >> > >>Nevertheless, let

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 11/3/2014 5:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 2 13:02, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/30/2014 6:27 PM, Don MacDougall wrote: So, why the postinst scripts failed to run before, now becomes an academic matter for me. Nevertheless, let me point out for the sake of the archives that the answer wa

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On Nov 2 13:02, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/30/2014 6:27 PM, Don MacDougall wrote: > >So, why the > >postinst scripts failed to run before, now becomes an academic matter for > >me. > > Nevertheless, let me point out for the sake of the archives that the answer > was contained in one of your earlier

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 10/30/2014 6:27 PM, Don MacDougall wrote: So, why the postinst scripts failed to run before, now becomes an academic matter for me. Nevertheless, let me point out for the sake of the archives that the answer was contained in one of your earlier messages: On 10/24/2014 3:11 AM, Don MacDoug

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

>> ...if there is a way (to begin again to install default packages) without >> starting over >> from scratch I'd be interested in a pointer to any documentation on it. > > Since you've already downloaded the packages, you can just remove the > installed directory (don't remove setupXXX.exe or mir

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

Greetings, Don MacDougall! >> This could happen, if you install too many packages on a 32-bit Cygwin, or >> there's an interference in your system that break memory layout of >> applications. (I.e. BLODA) > I think you might be right and getting to the bottom of it looks looks like > it'll > take

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

> This could happen, if you install too many packages on a 32-bit Cygwin, or > there's an interference in your system that break memory layout of > applications. (I.e. BLODA) I think you might be right and getting to the bottom of it looks looks like it'll take a lot longer than I was counting on

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

Greetings, Don MacDougall! >> I wouldn't try to restart the install without figuring out why >> /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh didn't complete. Is there >> anything >> at all in /var/log/ that might provide a clue? Usually setup writes >> temporary >> files while it's executing pos

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

> I wouldn't try to restart the install without figuring out why > /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh didn't complete. Is there > anything > at all in /var/log/ that might provide a clue? Usually setup writes > temporary > files while it's executing postinstall scripts. There wasn't ev

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 10/21/2014 12:06 AM, Don MacDougall wrote: I don't know what happened, but you must have inadvertently selected some packages to install that you didn't intend to choose. There are no texlive packages in a default installation. If I somehow did something like this, is there an easy wa

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

> I don't know what happened, but you must have inadvertently selected > some packages to install that you didn't intend to choose. There are no > texlive packages in a default installation. If I somehow did something like this, is there an easy way to undo it other than to delete everything a

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

Oops, what I meant to say was that it says "default" not "install" when I restart the installation. If I had it set to "install" the first time rather than "default", presumably it would still say that on restarting, I would imagine, though this is my first time in at least 10 years to try to inst

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

If I changed it away from "default" was accidental. I did look through the list of packages to be installed and it looked like quite a list and all binary packages were checked but not the source packages. But, since the first time I have looked when I restarted the installation and it said "defa

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 10/20/2014 10:09 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/20/2014 6:38 PM, Don MacDougall wrote: I downloaded Setup.exe version 2.850 (32 bit) on Oct 18, 2014 and used it to install cygwin from scratch on an Asus Eee notebook with Atom N455 cpu. I tried to install only the default packages but it seems li

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

On 10/20/2014 6:38 PM, Don MacDougall wrote: I downloaded Setup.exe version 2.850 (32 bit) on Oct 18, 2014 and used it to install cygwin from scratch on an Asus Eee notebook with Atom N455 cpu. I tried to install only the default packages but it seems like that took about 8 hours to download ove

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

I downloaded Setup.exe version 2.850 (32 bit) on Oct 18, 2014 and used it to install cygwin from scratch on an Asus Eee notebook with Atom N455 cpu. I tried to install only the default packages but it seems like that took about 8 hours to download overnight. The install went okay until it came to

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

On 7/20/2014 10:00 AM, leftwing wrote: I'm experiencing this problem right now, about 2 years after earlier discussion. I didn't choose this package - it was installed as a dependency for curl development. The post install processes have been running for hours and hours ... Please make a self

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

I'm experiencing this problem right now, about 2 years after earlier discussion. I didn't choose this package - it was installed as a dependency for curl development. The post install processes have been running for hours and hours ... -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

On 2/6/2013 4:52 AM, jeremycraven wrote: I did not change anything in the "Publishing" section, so all were at default, unless one of my other choices chnaged them due to dependencies Nothing from TeX Live is installed by default. So everything you installed came from dependencies. (see e

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

I did not change anything in the "Publishing" section, so all were at default, unless one of my other choices chnaged them due to dependencies (see end of this post as well). Elsewhere as far as I remember I added all of X11, python, and editors, rxvt , tcsh shell, and Imagemagick. Of those the on

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

On 2/5/2013 10:48 AM, jeremycraven wrote: I am just reinstalling cygwin on a fresh install of XP on a rather old laptop with Avast as virus software. It is absolutely crawling at the texlive postinstallation stage - stuck showing 24-25% for at least half an hour now. I was about to give up but g

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

On 2/5/2013 4:48 PM, jeremycraven wrote: I am just reinstalling cygwin on a fresh install of XP on a rather old laptop with Avast as virus software. It is absolutely crawling at the texlive postinstallation stage - stuck showing 24-25% for at least half an hour now. I was about to give up but go

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

I am just reinstalling cygwin on a fresh install of XP on a rather old laptop with Avast as virus software. It is absolutely crawling at the texlive postinstallation stage - stuck showing 24-25% for at least half an hour now. I was about to give up but googled "cygwin install hangs texlive-collect

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

On 1/28/2013 11:41 AM, toddcs wrote: I, too, am now experiencing this texlive problem during Cygwin update, in which I am trying to install Asymptote for the first time. I am on a late-model laptop with up-to-date anti-virus software. I do not experience such extreme bottlenecks at all in other c

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

I, too, am now experiencing this texlive problem during Cygwin update, in which I am trying to install Asymptote for the first time. I am on a late-model laptop with up-to-date anti-virus software. I do not experience such extreme bottlenecks at all in other contexts. -- View this message in con

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

Ken Brown writes: > I don't see anything in those scripts that would explain this. I just > ran them manually on my system, and the times (in minutes) were 14, > 3, 2.5, 2.5, and 7. So I can't think of any explanation except that > something on your system (anti-virus or other BLODA?) was interf

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

On 8/23/2012 7:35 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/23/2012 6:03 AM, martin.fitzpatr...@sita.aero wrote: Hi, I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article "Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours". Ken B

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

On 8/23/2012 6:03 AM, martin.fitzpatr...@sita.aero wrote: Hi, I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article "Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours". Ken Brown's response to that post was hopeful

RE: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

Martin.Fitzpatrick@... wrote: > This document is strictly confidential and intended only for use by the > addressee unless otherwise stated. If you are not the intended recipient, > please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Martin, per

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Martin.Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi, > > I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an > extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article If you do the same with the anti-virus disabled does it change the length of time? -- E

Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

Hi, I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article "Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours". Ken Brown's response to that post was hopeful, but may have underestimated the scope of the problem,