Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/10/11:19:54
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 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.
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>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
Yes, it was indeed libopenldap-bananananananananana that was the
problem, and removing it from installed.db did fix it. It explains why my
home computer, which I update less frequently and which thus missed
the heyday of that package, never exhibited the problem.
Thanks for your perspicacity.
> "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total
> Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Darn, and I missed it! I was really looking forward to seeing the oceans boil
off into space.
Aaron V. Humphrey
Kakari Systems Ltd.
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