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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>,
   <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is CVS setup.exe (tip) supposed to work?
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:45:17 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>

> >
> > You can setup a local mirror, by changing the URL that the
mirrors.lst
> > is downloaded from to point to your own webserver - just don't check
> > that change in :].
> >
>
> Is that required for it to work, or should it work with current
mirrors as they
> are?

It should be fine as is. To date, no backwards-incompatible changes have
been committed to HEAD. Some are upcoming, (se my setup.ini and upset
change email a few days back) and those changes while needed for HEAD,
are forward compatible with the categories parser.

> > As for this problem, try running setup under gdb and seeing whats
going
> > on here though.
> >
>
> Um, yeah, well, I did try that, with hi-larious
dialog-boxes-a-hundred-deep
> results.  Well, hi-larious perhaps if it was happening to somebody
else at a
> non-godforsaken hour of the morning ;-).  Guess I have no option
remaining but
> to read the gdb instructions ;-).

Try
gdb -nw ./setup.exe
r
.... *boom*
bt
 and go from there.

Rob