X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Bug in setup.exe install Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:40:50 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20060121010124.88886.qmail@web84011.mail.dcn.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Arthur Schwarz wrote: > For the last 2+ years I've been unable to upgrade Cygwin on my Win2K > system without reinstalling from scratch. This has periodically been > mentioned by other users. I may have found at least one case for a > failure. Apparently Install.cc:do_install_thread passes a zero length > string to install.cc:md5_one. The failure is repeatable. Thanks for the report, and particularly for the simple testcase. I'm now investigating it. > b. Select 'View > Partial' after parsing. > c. Deselect all Binary and Source update selections except > 'gawk' Binary. > - The following dependencies are automatically chosen by > the setup program(?): > bash > libiconv2 > libintl3 > d. Click 'Next' One known weakness of setup.exe is when deselecting things with complex patterns of dependencies. You might get better results from starting by using the 'Keep' radio button, to select nothing for installation, and then *adding* packages you want upgraded. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/