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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>,
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Subject: Re: for the brave
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:29:45 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:31 AM


> 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.

Very strange. Did you get a new folder of the form http:%.... ?
Is //polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin the path you enter in
'choose local dir' ?

> 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 /)

Thanks, you've just given me a big hint, on a related issue :}.

Rob