Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/09/07/03:06:55
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote:
> I am at a loss: since I upgraded to 1.5.3, some of my configure scripts
> fail with "invalid package name: module" message (obviously, "module" is
> a valid name); I traced this to an "expr" call; if I add any `expr'
> call right before the failing one, everything works just fine. _WEIRD!_
>
> now, I decided to check my installation, and cygcheck reported that
> some packages are incomplete:
>
> diff 1.0-1 Incomplete
> newlib-man 20020801 Incomplete
> XFree86-base 4.3.0-1 Incomplete
>
> what do I do about it?
>
> I tried reinstalling. didn't help.
> tried removing diff (why is it there anyway?), but it re-appeared again.
>
> what is going on?
> am I missing something trivial?
Sorry, mea culpa. Basically, cygcheck failed package integrity check if
the manifest (file list) for that file was missing. At the time I wrote
the code, I thought that an abnormal situation. Turns out that no
manifest exists for empty packages (compatibility, like "diff" and
"newlib-man", and dummy ones, like "XFree86-base"), so this is perfectly
normal. This should be fixed by
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2003-q3/msg00217.html>, and will appear
in the next snapshot, whenever that's generated (and, of course, in
1.5.4).
Igor
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