Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3FCA6F8D.7040808@uk.om.org> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:30:37 +0000 From: Urs Rau Reply-To: urs.rau@uk.om.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: can't install or upgrade from local anymore (setup v. 2.416) References: <3FC66F7F.9050604@uk.om.org> <01ea01c3b5ee$b929bcb0$78d96f83@starfruit> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (uk.om.org) X-Spam-Checked: This message is probably not SPAM X-Spam-Score: -2.5, Required: 5 X-Spam-Tests: EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.35 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Urs, > > It would be great if you were willing to debug the problem, willing, yes. but I am not sure what you would want me to do? is there a document somewhere? > but in any case, I can offer a workaround: try giving a "--no-md5" (or "-5") > command-line option to setup.exe -- that should turn off MD5 sum checking > for the packages. and it does. but the packages selected don't actually get installed. I have now gone through it twice and the packages still show up as not installed. Thanks for the hint anyway. Urs Rau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/