X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F67B75B.2050604@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:46:51 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours References: <201203192105 DOT q2JL5Guv026181 AT telford DOT daku DOT org> In-Reply-To: <201203192105.q2JL5Guv026181@telford.daku.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown AT cornell DOT edu - Mon Mar 19 18:46:58 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 3/19/2012 5:02 PM, david wrote: > I have noticed that the postinstall processing of "texlive" seems to go > on for hours, even on a reasonably powerful computer (Intel i7, 64bit, > 2.5G memory running Windows 7 in VirtualBox (host Centos6) with 5 > cores). I am running a fresh install using Cygwin Setup 1.7.11-1 on an > otherwise empty system. This delay was not true in 1.7.9; it ran to > completion in reasonable time. > > For the past few days, I've actually aborted the install several times > because I thought it was hung. By "forever" I mean 6+ hours of solid > compute with occasional disk activity as it runs through > "texlive-collection-lang-*" language by language. Had I not let it run > overnight, I don't think I would have ever concluded that it would ever > finish. No other VM is active, and the underlying Linux is quiet too. > > Is this really necessary? I could of course omit TeX, but that's not a > good solution. The initial packaging of the texlive-collection-* packages had postinstall scripts that sometimes did unnecessary work. I recently fixed that for 29 of the packages, including all of them that a typical TeX user would need. The remaining 45 packages will have their postinstall scripts fixed eventually. But even with the original postinstall scripts, the installation shouldn't take anywhere near 6 hours. There must be something else going on with your system, maybe having to do with your VM. BTW, I doubt if you need all 74 texlive-collection-* packages. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple