Subject: RE: additional setup information: still not working.
From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
To: "dave" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 12:48:21 +1000

Well setup has no hardcoding for the 'initial' packages. All packages
are equal. I'm pretty much out of ideas as to how this could be
occuring.

Could you document your exact mouse clicks and keyboards strokes for a
typicall session?

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dave [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 12:27 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: additional setup information: still not working.
> 
> 
> Hello,
>     Yes. The initial packages, what is programmed in to setup 
> to retrieve as the cygwin base installs fine, however nothing 
> else will.
>     For lack of any good ideas on my part i was wondering if 
> it is possible to download cygwin packages manually to / then 
> bunzip2 them and untar them, if they'll be considered installed?
>     Kepp the suggestions coming please.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
> To: "dave" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 10:06 PM
> Subject: RE: additional setup information: still not working.
> 
> 
> So you are saying that the initial packages do install correctly?
> 
> Rob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dave [mailto:[email-masked]]
> > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 11:59 AM
> > To: Robert Collins
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> > Subject: Re: additional setup information: still not working.
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >     This cygwin install is a fresh install. If i start it, 
> and select 
> > view partial those packages are all i will get, if i first select 
> > another package, then go to view partial the additional 
> package shows 
> > up but is not fetched. Dave.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
> > To: "dave" <[email-masked]>; <[email-masked]>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 9:09 PM
> > Subject: RE: additional setup information: still not working.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dave [mailto:[email-masked]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 10:57 AM
> > > To: [email-masked]
> > > Subject: additional setup information: still not working.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >     I've just figured out some information on my setup
> > problem. If i
> > > use the view button to change from catagory to partial
> > without first
> > > selecting any packages the partial
> >
> > Do you mean you get a 'no packages to display' in the 
> chooser? Or an 
> > empty list?
> >
> > > listing is all i get. If i select a package, then go back
> > to partial
> > > view that package shows up in the list, however when i try
> > to download
> > > it it halts with setup nothing needed to be done.
> > >     Any suggestions?
> >
> > Did you have an old copy of cygwin on the system? This is 
> the sort of 
> > behaviour I'd expect from setup if you have a 
> /etc/setup/installed.db 
> > file.
> >
> > Are you able to select 'reinstall' for any of the packages?
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

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