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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:31:38 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Robert Collins wrote:

> ===
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
> 
>>Oops -- more problems.  I can't "install from local directory".  Setup
>>whines that it is "Unable to get setup.ini from setup.ini" (??)
>>
> 
> Is this reproducible? What does your local dir look like (what
> setup.ini's does it have, and what does the top dir show in ls -l)


Yes it is reproducible.  The local dir is on a samba share and looks like:

$ ls -l //polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin


drwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None            0 Jan 12 05:04 contrib
drwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None            0 Jan 16 23:44 latest
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None      2543725 Jan 19 23:13 setup-new.exe
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None       218112 Nov 29 05:44 setup.exe
-rw-r--r--    1 Administ None        52399 Jan 20 23:01 setup.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 Administ None          335 Jan 20 20:19 setup.log
-rw-r--r--    1 Administ None          335 Jan 20 20:19 setup.log.full

setup-new.exe is the one from CVS.  setup.exe is the one from the webpage.

Note that if I remove setup.ini/log/full and run setup-new in "install 
from internet" mode, the new setup does NOT recreate .ini/log/full and 
I'm left with an .ini-less local dir (but it WILL download and parse 
setup.ini from the internet, and download/install the chosen packages. 
BUT, I have NO idea where it put them -- e.g. cygwin-1.3.8-1.tar.bz2 did 
NOT get saved into latest/cygwin/ even though it WAS successfully installed.

However, the good news is that if I run setup-new in "install from local 
dir" mode, with this ini-less directory, setup-new.ini will successfully 
parse the local latest and contrib directories and present me with lots 
of packages in the misc group -- so at least that works.

Hmmm...I note that setup-new is appending stuff to /setup.log and 
rewriting /setup.log.full -- that is, it doesn't write this info into 
//polgara/private/....  (No, there is no /setup.ini and there is no 
latest/contrib tree under /)

--Chuck