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Date: | Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:20:56 -0600 |
From: | Heath Kehoe <hkehoe AT budcat DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: "mbox note: Can't open file://L:\ods\rtoy\Cygnus/ for reading: Unrecognisable file format" errors whilst executing setup.exe |
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Heath Kehoe wrote: > - Using setup.exe version 2.677 > - We have a local mirror which is updated using rsync (daily) > - The local mirror is accessed as a network share on the Windows > machines, which is mapped to a drive letter. > - In setup.exe, select 'Install from Local Directory' > - The root directory is: C:\cygwin > - Install for: All users > - Local package directory for us is: M:\apps\cygwin (the network share) > - Select all packages to install (if it's a new installation. For an > upgrade we take the default selections) > - During the installation, we get pop-ups that say "can't open > M:\apps\cygwin for reading: Unrecognisable file format". Those pop-ups > must be dismissed for the installation to finish, and they happen many > times (52 times for a new, full installation) > - Once setup is complete, Cygwin appears to work OK. > - We've observed this on both fresh new installations as well as with > upgrades from 1.5 > - We've observed this on Win7 64bit and on XP 32bit. > > These lines appear throughout setup.log.full and correspond to the > popups: > 2010/01/27 17:27:12 mbox note: Can't open > file://M:\apps\cygwin\Current/ for reading: Unrecognisable file format > > Hopefully this is enough detail :) > -heath > I have some more information on this. The errors correspond to packages which are in setup.ini without install: or source: lines, for example: ORBit cogito libIDL libxml-devel libxml1 (etc) These packages wind up in install_q in do_install_thread(); and so get passed to Installer::installOne(). As there's no 'install:' field in setup.ini, the packagesource 'filename' and 'canonical' members are NULL; and the 'cached' member ends up containing 'local_dir' with nothing else; hence the mbox message that we see. I'm not sure why this only seems to manifest when using a network drive as the package source (or cache). Anyway, for now I'm going to just comment out the call to note() at install.cc:295 so that my users can do installations without having to dismiss that popup 52 times. -heath ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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