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Subject: Re: Error running setup-x86_64.exe: syntax error in setup.zst
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On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 2:40 AM Jon Turney <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> wrote:
>
> On 07/04/2023 02:44, Keith Thompson via Cygwin wrote:
> > Running setup-x86_64.exe on a Windows 10 laptop, I get this error message:
> >
> > https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst line
> > 30182: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting COMMA or NL
> > https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst line
> > 30182: unrecognized line 30183 (do you have the latest setup?)
> > https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst line
> > 30203: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting COMMA or NL
> > https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst line
> > 30203: unrecognized line 30204 (do you have the latest setup?)
> >
> > (I can't copy the text from the message box so I retyped it.)
>
> Protip: Ctrl-C should work on a message box.

Yes, it does! You can't select part of the text and there's no visual
feedback, but if you select the message box and type Ctrl-C, it works.
That's going to be useful.

> > I re-downloaded setup-x86_64.exec, and it's identical to the one on my laptop.
> >
> > I'm using the mirrors.kernel.org mirror.
> > The setup.zst from mirrors.dotsrc.org is identical.
> > I decompressed setup.zst and I do see something suspicious on the
> > indicated lines.
> >
> > Here's line 30182:
> >
> > build-depends: \, bison, cygport, dblatex, docbook2X, flex,
> > gettext-devel, libGLU-devel, libcairo-devel, libcanberra-gtk-devel,
> > libcurl-devel, libfreetype-devel, libglib2.0-devel, libgmp-devel,
> > libgtk2.0-devel, libgtkglext1.0-devel, libpango1.0-devel,
> > libpng-devel, libreadline-devel, libsqlite3-devel, libxslt,
> > python3-devel, texinfo
> >
> > Line 30203 is similar. I don't see a lone backslash anywhere else in the file.
>
> Yeah, this is wrong.
>
> I need to investigate further why the mechanisms which should have
> caught this didn't.
>
> > The setup.zst from mirrors.sonic.net does *not* have problematic
> > build-depends lines.
> > (Switching to a different mirror might be a workaround, but I haven't
> > tried it yet.)
> >
> > The "bad" setup.zst has "setup-timestamp: 1680813730" (Thu 2023-04-06
> > 20:42:10 UTC).
> > The "good" setup.zst has "setup-timestamp: 1680795371" (Thu 2023-04-06
> > 15:36:11 UTC).
> > The bad one is about 5 hours newer than the good one.
> > I'm concerned that the bad setup.zst might propagate to other mirrors.
> This is fixed as of setup-timestamp: 1680860048
>
> Thanks very much for reporting this.
>
> Apologies for the inconvenience.

The mirror I use (mirrors.kernel.org) now has a setup.zst with a
newer timestamp (1680869581) and without the stray backslashes.

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