Mail Archives: cygwin/2012/08/23/10:35:15
On today's update of texlive-collection-basic I got the exit message
Package: texlive-collection-basic
texlive-collection-basic.sh exit code 148
which typically seems to follow most texlive installations.
At subsequent uses of setup, even when there is nothing new to install,
the "unknown package" /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh is
again run, resulting in the same exit code, and this behaviour is
recurrent. The attempt takes an unbelievable 4 minutes each time, even
on a moderately new and fast machine (XP Pro SP3).
There is a way round this. I use good old setup v.2.510.2.2 (c. 2005)
having deleted "message:" entries from setup.ini , which this old
version doesn't understand. Hey presto, the script is run, exits just
fine, and there is no recurrence. There may be other ways, but I don't
know them and can't remember reading about them here.
With the editing of setup.ini described above which is a bit of a chore,
my preference is to use v.2.510 for everything, including brand new
installs both of 1.7 and the Legacy 1.5. Doing this, I have not
experienced another setup annoyance, where a request to install Cygwin
at location H:\ is ignored, and the installation proceeds remorselessly
to C:\cygwin\.
Unfortunately, despite a clear chain of .. requires: -> requires: ->
requires: .. in setup.ini, I found after using v.2.510.2.2 for a brand
new install, one missing dependency. I'm not exactly certain how an
engine that works its way correctly through very many essentially
identical instruction lists can have slipped up with just one, but this
did occur [can't remember details but they are there somewhere on this
list and I will look for them]. This rather dented my confidence in and
reliance upon this old favourite. Otherwise I would use it the whole time.
Fergus
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