X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:cc:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=HcN+UiAoIlFMeu/P 1gADry2PpHTpt66vHgXO9ZOxjAZ37Zs3ZxfAXfn7YXaHOBMoys1WEOHyH5NyTGg7 hot+1aAw1YD/3PsA0NmBtc6HH4ikD1q2vRds1AthJNgP1XohOJikXZY55kXlHWlW /f3XLIwkNmsozDsxjU5BOakLkSw= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:cc:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=r/lQGGPDxMbpedDtj8KV9F CKMHY=; b=ZLtRj8c0tBKHQFTj9mEiPKADJlwH2jDjsoDIl6xIX9h8SRiRyDk0Mj i9UDydc1jEbk2C5IeVKOTzSylKM2XAjOJXgAQktDkbm9PpKN94zYHLB3ZKsOsX4J yZADEb4ZUJMS30RTpfMUQUJyK+s98INBsiycb8HuDJWinrkZvDeng= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,KAM_EXEURI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com X-ME-Sender: Subject: Re: setup-x86_64.exe v2.889 doesn't select additionally downloaded packages when installing from local directory To: The Cygwin Mailing List References: <8571f617c5a740608e267364827e7733 AT merl DOT com> From: Jon Turney Cc: Robert Cohen Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 22:13:30 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8571f617c5a740608e267364827e7733@merl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/03/2018 23:00, Robert Cohen wrote: > Summary of problem: > When installing Cygwin from a local directory, setup-x86_64.exe version 2.889 doesn't > list the packages that I additionally selected for download when previously downloading > to that directory, and the top line of the GUI under Category view says "No packages found<->Default". > Continuing the install only installs the packages preselected by setup. Thanks for reporting this problem. > Details: > To install a fresh version of Cygwin, I usually do this: Run setup-x86_64.exe > using "Download Without Installing", select some additional packages, and then after > everything finished, I rerun setup-x86_64.exe using "Install from Local Directory", and then > the GUI, under Category view, shows "All <-> Default", beneath which is a hierarchical > list including the packages preselected by setup along with the additional ones that I selected > when downloading. > > Here's the problem: I performed the above process using today's version of setup-x86_64.exe > from cygwin.com, which according to setup.ini is setup version 2.889, and the > "Download Without Installing" setup worked as expected. However, when I next > did "Install from Local Directory" using that directory, instead of showing "All<->Default", it > showed "No packages found<->Default", and only the packages preselected by > setup were not going to be skipped. I tried changing "Default" to "Install" at the > top level of the list, but that then selected everything for install, not just the preselected > packages and the additional ones I had downloaded. I repeated this process using > a few different mirror sites for the download phase, but that made no difference. > > Interestingly, if I copy an older version of setup-x86_64.exe into my already-downloaded > directory, e.g. setup-x86_64.exe version 2.880, the GUI is able to find the selected packages > that I had already downloaded using setup version 2.889, after of course giving a few warnings > about the current ini file being from a newer version of setup. In other words, if I download > using setup v2.889, then when subsequently installing from that directory, setup v2.889 doesn't > know what additional packages I had selected, whereas setup v2.880 does know. > > I'm wondering if I'm not doing something correctly, or if there is an issue with version 2.889 of > setup-x86_64.exe not finding packages that were additionally selected for download. I built an updated setup with some attempted fixes for these problems. https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.889-12-g1cf567.x86.exe https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.889-12-g1cf567.x86_64.exe Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you? -- 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