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From:	"Rutten, Mark" <Mark DOT Rutten AT dsto DOT defence DOT gov DOT au>
To:	"'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: setup change this year?
Date:	Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:22:37 +1030
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Thanks for your help.  I will download and try out the debug version soon.

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, 30 January 2004 12:02 PM
> To: Rutten, Mark; 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: Re: setup change this year?
> 
> 
> At 06:38 PM 1/29/2004, Rutten, Mark you wrote:
> 
> >Is there something different about the way that "setup" runs 
> since Christmas?
> >
> >I have a local mirror of the cygwin packages (neatened up 
> using Michael Chase's clean_setup perl script) which I access 
> across the local network.  I always call setup with the "-5" 
> option (no md5 checks).
> >
> >All was working fine last year, now setup bogs down my 
> machine (excessive processor usage by the "system" process) 
> after parsing the setup.ini file.  My first impression is 
> that setup is doing the md5 checks without telling me that it 
> is, but I can't be sure.  My main confusion stems from the 
> fact that there hasn't been any changes in the setup program 
> since last October(ish) - I'm using version 2.416.
> >
> >If anyone could please give me some hints, that would be fantastic.
> 
> 
> Sounds like a local network problem if you're actually just 
> using a local 
> mirror and not just using it in addition to other mirrors on 
> the Internet.
> That's just a WAG though.  Perhaps you want to visit:
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/>
> 
> You can pull down 2.418 (really just adds resizable controls) 
> and see if
> it acts differently.  You can also pull down the debug 
> version of 2.415.
> If it acts similarly, it would give you a quick basis to debug from, 
> without having to rebuild 2.416.  But if you're really serious about 
> finding your problem, building 2.416 as debug locally is probably your
> best course of action.
> 
> 
> 
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