Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/26/09:10:24
Luke,
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a reason. There was no need to Cc: me -- I read the list.
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Luke Kendall wrote:
> On 25 Jul, Igor Pechtchanski replied to:
>
> > > Is there a way to test if a downloaded cygwin will cause the
> > > "Download Incomplete. Try again?" error, except by running
> > > setup.exe?
> >
> > Yes, there is. There is no magic in setup.exe (well, not much, in
> > any case). Check the filenames, file sizes and md5sums against
> > setup.ini, not the md5.sum files.
>
> Really?! I modified my md5cychk script to perform that check. Our old,
> stable, working Cygwin mirror installs and runs fine, and all the
> md5.sum files check correctly against the package files. But 53 of the
> package files differ in their version against the setup.ini file.
>
> Ah, wait! Should I only check md5s if a package filename (and hence
> version) in setup.ini matches against a file in the package directory?
Yes.
> Does setup.exe only complain if setup.ini files are a *subset* of the
> files in the package directory? At the moment I'm checking for perfect
> congruence.
setup.exe only complains if any of the files *it has just downloaded* do
not have the same size or MD5 sum as what's stored in setup.ini. It does
not match those against *other* files. So yes, the filenames have to
match perfectly.
> [snip]
>
> > > By looking through the mailing list archives, I got the impression that
> > > this happened when the setup.ini file got out of sync with the
> > > collection of packages - but Christopher explained that setup.ini only
> > > gets updated occasionally.
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> > > And I can confirm that: many of the package versions in setup.ini don't
> > > match the versions of the packages present, even in stable and
> > > installable cygwin mirrors.
> > >
> > > Is that because setup.ini gets updated manually?
> >
> > Probably yes. If the mirroring process catches the main Cygwin
> > repository in a state where a package is uploaded, but setup.ini
> > hasn't been updated, the repository will be in an inconsistent state.
>
> Can setup.ini be out of date for long periods, because it is updated
> manually?
I missed the "manually" bit. As Chris already said, setup.ini does *not*
get updated manually. It does, however, get updated independently of when
the uploads happen, so there can be a window of inconsistency, as
described above.
> > > Would you like me to try to design an easy system to regenerate it
> > > automatically when packages are updated? (I'm imagining a tree of
> > > per-package description parts which change infrequently, and a script
> > > which adds the file size and md5 sig automatically. Perhaps it should
> > > even be a Makefile.)
> >
> > Eh? There's more to it than that -- setup.ini also has versions, etc.
>
> Oh! But when we mirror a site, we only see a single setup.ini file.
I meant the package versions. As in filenames. See above.
> > > [snip email about setup.ini size/md5sum mismatch (with raw e-mail
> > > addresses, I might add)]
>
> [Oh: the cygwin-xfree address itself? Sorry. :-( ]
>
> > > But is that the cause of the problem?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > If not, does anyone know what the real problem is?
> > >
> > > If the only way is by running setup.exe, is that unlikely to damage an
> > > older, working Cygwin install?
> >
> > If you run setup in download mode, you will not affect the existing
> > install.
>
> I think it does: the download would fail with the above error message,
> so you would know not to proceed?
This was unclear: you think it does affect the existing install, or you
think it does the right thing? Again, if you run setup and select
"Download only", it should not do *anything* with the existing
installation other than add files to the setup package cache.
> I think I'm starting to understand. (With some gaps, though.)
Good (the understanding, not the gaps). There's always the source of
setup.exe to guide you though the hairy (and magic) parts... :-)
Igor
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