X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:35:26 +0200 From: Aaron Schneider User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup shows ? instead of size for some packages References: <501370E3 DOT 60506 AT mvseac DOT com> In-Reply-To: <501370E3.60506@mvseac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 28/07/2012 6:56, L Anderson wrote: > Call me slow to notice but I'm seeing more packages appearing with size > ? mark in the "View" window when I run cygwin setup. Also, I notice > that most, if not all the packages, seem to be related to source or > libraries. I've read the setup documentation, googled, and searched the > mail list but can't seem to find as answer as to what's behind it. > > Would someone in the know please tell me what causes it, what it means, > and is it a problem? > > Some of the entries I see are: > > skip Gnome ? atk 1.0: Acc. Toolkit library (sources) > skip Libs ? boost: Boost C++ libraries (source) > Skip X11 ? cairo: Cross-dev. vec. grap. lib.(source) > 1.0-2 Keep Misc ? clear > 1.2.0-1 Keep Misc ? d > Skip Gnome ? dbus-glib: Freedsktp msg bus sys. (source) > Skip Devel,L.? eventlog: Structured event logging library > Skip X11 ? fltk_gdi: Fst Lgt Toolkit-GDI ver.(sources) > > Additional Information: > - Installing updates from my own local release mirror updated today. > - Running Win XP Pro > - Running cygwin 1.7.16-1 > - Setup.exe version 2.774 > - Setup.ini shows setup-timestamp: 1343379014 and setup-version: 2.774. > > I think that happens because the packages you downloaded once are not present in the mirror you are getting the list from. Cygwin gets the size of a installed package from the present list that you get from the mirror. Try reinstalling and see what happens. -- 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