Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/09/12:03:20
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:42:00AM -0700, Aaron Humphrey wrote:
> >Where does Setup store its column widths, if any? I'm using Setup
> >version 2.427, and on every view the "Current" column is far, far too
> >wide. At 1280x1024 resolution, it's at least 3/4 of the screen width.
> >It's been doing this for a few weeks, at least, and I have to manually
> >resize the column. Once I do resize it, it stays the right width when
> >I change views, until the next time I run Setup.
> >
> >If Setup is storing the information somewhere, there it's nowhere
> >obvious--the setup.ini files seem to be for keeping track of packages
> >instead of Setup's configuration(since there's one per mirror folder),
> >and I couldn't find anything in the registry.
>
> The column width is as long as the widest version number. It seems fine
> to me. It's certainly not 3/4 of the screen width on my system.
There was a package at some point that confused setup's versioning logic,
so setup stored a very long version number for it. The package is long
gone from the mirrors, but if the OP was unlucky enough to update while it
was still available, he has a corrupt line in his /etc/setup/installed.db.
Since it's a plain text file, he can just edit it and remove that line (it
should be easy to spot).
HTH,
Igor
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