Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/17/11:03:04
Using setup snapshot version 2.358 on an old NT-SP6a machine:
. The text on the "view" button becomes unreadable after the first
time it is clicked. [I think this is an old problem, but I've not
seen it mentioned for some time, and I didn't see it in the WISH/TODO
list.]
. I do not understand the logic behind checking MD5 sums when doing
a local install but not when doing a download. If I want to uninstall,
reinstall or add a package which I know is already in my local directory
I used to select "Install from Local Directory" as it was quicker.
Now, I have to wait a few minutes for all MD5 sums to be checked (I have
a slow machine). If I use "Install from Internet" I have to wait a second
or two for the mirror list and setup.bz2 to download, but there is no
long wait for MD5 checking. Can setup leave MD5 checking until the
installation phase, after package selection, and check only those
packages about to be installed? If any checks fail it could report
the problem, possibly delete the offending file(s), and return to the
package selection dialog.
. There is a problem with cancelling setup while it is running postinstalls.
Running the postinstall of package texmf on my machine takes far too long
(it may not finish - I've not had the patience to wait). I pressed "cancel"
after several minutes. This caused install to immediately report
"Installation complete". Suspecting that other postinstall scripts hadn't
run, I re-ran setup, selecting reinstall of package "cygwin". Setup now
reported that I needed to reboot to complete the installation. It also
re-ran the texmf postinstall, so I cancelled again. Task manager showed
a number of cygwin processes running after exiting setup (sh's, ls and sed)
which I forcibly killed - I assume those left from the first cancelled
setup were the cause of the reboot request on the second run. Setup
is now in a state where it will always try to run the texmf postinstall
(as texmf.sh is in /etc/postinstall) but as it does not believe texmf is
installed texmf cannot be selected for uninstall. Manual intervention taken
to fix this - I edited texmf.sh to make it exit early, ran setup which now
completed the texmf postinstall and other pending ones, then uninstalled texmf.
Points of interest here: (i) Pressing Cancel during Setup's
postinstall phase (a) does not kill the postinstall shell,
and (b) displays installation complete, even though there are
un-done postinstall scripts left. (ii) I can't see how to
rectify a stuck postinstall without manual intervention.
(iii) there may be a problem with the texmf postinstall script.
Having said all that, I'm glad to see many other improvements to setup.
Cliff Hones.
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