Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/04/06:03:58
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Wyatt [mailto:dwyatt AT sunflower DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:50 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Question on the new behavior of setup.exe
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Back on 25Mar2002, Robert Collins replied to a posting which
> mentioned an oddly named subdir in a local hosts download
> dir. Earlier today, I tried to dowload the latest updates to
> a local dir with the newest setup.exe, running from a W2k PC
> and got errors about not being able to find a subdir with a
> long name containing what looked like printf format sequences.
Hmm, if you could send the logs from that failing machine, I can try to
see whats happening.
> When I got home, I again downloaded the current setup.exe and
> updated my local repository, this time without problem, but
> when I updated my Cygwin
> installation I got a warning that my setup.ini was out of
> date. Nonetheless, it appears that the newer packages were installed.
That's probably due to the setup.ini the the old cache dirs (contrib and
latest immediately under the directory you specify as local package
dir).
> Looking in the download directory, I now see a new subdir,
> called
> 'ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fmirrors%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin'
> which contains the newly downloaded contrib and latest dirs
> and the new setup.ini.
For that specific site. You can choose multiple mirrors on the mirror
selection screen - personally I choose 4 mirrors - and then you simply
leave those selected, and setup will intelligently use the most up to
date mirror automatically.
> The setup.log and the setup.log.full
> files under the download dir (the parent of the above named
> dir) contain the history of the downloads, but not of the
> installs.
Only if you do a two run install. If you simply 'install from the
internet', then all the log data goes to one place.
> The setup.log and setup.log.full in the Cygwin
> root dir contain no information on today's install, either -
> only the info from my last installation upgrade on 2002/03/17.
Look in /var/logs
> I really like the improved look and organization of the new
> setup.exe, but can someone clarify what it is doing behind the scenes?
Thanks (on behalf of all the contributors). I hope the above info helps.
Rob
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