Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:54:15 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: installer chokes on unix line endings Message-ID: <20031120195414.GA9192@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <1069356816 DOT 1117 DOT 17 DOT camel AT localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1069356816.1117.17.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:33:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:52, Neal Becker wrote: >> Ironic, isn't it? If you download setup.ini with unix line endings, the >> installer fails to parse it. I'm guessing this can't be too hard to fix. > >Fix what? Setup is responsible for doing it's own downloads. If you use >an external tool - presumably because you're setting up your own mirror >- it's your responsibility to give setup the same things it expects from >the official mirrors. > >That said, it's probably easy enough to tweak the parser, and I'll >review a patch happily. I'm confused. As I mentioned, setup.ini is built on linux and the setup.ini that setup.exe downloaded to my local directory has UNIX line endings. cgf -- 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/