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Re: Question on the new behavior of setup.exe


Hi,

It appears that the problem with downloads on the W2k PC is the
result of one or more problems on the PC itself and between W2k
PC's in general and the NT Domain Server.  The download dir is on
a server share and it always worked w/o problems on and before
18Mar02.  Naturally, my first assumption when I saw the changes
in the operation of setup.exe was that it was at fault.

Now, I doubt it!

A segment of the log you asked for is:

2002/04/05 02:04:18 Starting cygwin install, version 2.194.2.22
2002/04/05 02:04:18 Current Directory: P:\Cygwin-v1_1_x
2002/04/05 02:04:18 Command line parameters
2002/04/05 02:04:18 0 - 'P:\Cygwin-v1_1_x\setup.exe'
2002/04/05 02:04:18 1 parameters passed
2002/04/05 02:04:26 source: download
2002/04/05 02:04:29 Selected local directory: P:\Cygwin-v1_1_x
2002/04/05 02:04:30 net: Direct
2002/04/05 02:05:05 site: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus
2002/04/05 02:05:05 site: http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin
2002/04/05 02:05:16 Downloaded P:\Cygwin-v1_1_x/ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.unierlangen.de
    %2fpub%2fpc%2fgnuwin32%2fcygwin%2fmirrors%2fcygnus/latest/autoconf/autoconf-
    2.53-1.tar.bz2
2002/04/05 02:05:16 mbox fatal: Can't open P:\Cygwin-v1_1_x/ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.uni-
    erlangen.de%2fpub%2fpc%2fgnuwin32%2fcygwin%2fmirrors%2fcygnus/latest/
    automake/automake-devel/automake-devel-1.5b-1.tar.bz2.tmp for writing:
    No such file or directory
2002/04/05 02:09:11 Ending cygwin install

Regards,
Doug Wyat

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doug Wyatt [mailto:dwyatt@sunflower.com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:50 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Question on the new behavior of setup.exe
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Back on 25Mar2002, Robert Collins replied to a posting which 
> > mentioned an oddly named subdir in a local hosts download 
> > dir.  Earlier today, I tried to dowload the latest updates to 
> > a local dir with the newest setup.exe, running from a W2k PC 
> > and got errors about not being able to find a subdir with a 
> > long name containing what looked like printf format sequences.
> 
> Hmm, if you could send the logs from that failing machine, I can try to
> see whats happening.
>  
> > When I got home, I again downloaded the current setup.exe and 
> > updated my local repository, this time without problem, but 
> > when I updated my Cygwin 
> > installation I got a warning that my setup.ini was out of 
> > date.  Nonetheless, it appears that the newer packages were installed.
> 
> That's probably due to the setup.ini the the old cache dirs (contrib and
> latest immediately under the directory you specify as local package
> dir).
>  
> > Looking in the download directory, I now see a new subdir, 
> > called 
> > 'ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fmirrors%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin'
> > which contains the newly downloaded contrib and latest dirs 
> > and the new setup.ini. 
> 
> For that specific site. You can choose multiple mirrors on the mirror
> selection screen - personally I choose 4 mirrors - and then you simply
> leave those selected, and setup will intelligently use the most up to
> date mirror automatically.
> 
> > The setup.log and the setup.log.full 
> > files under the download dir (the parent of the above named 
> > dir) contain the history of the downloads, but not of the 
> > installs.  
> 
> Only if you do a two run install. If you simply 'install from the
> internet', then all the log data goes to one place.
> 
> > The setup.log and setup.log.full in the Cygwin 
> > root dir contain no information on today's install, either - 
> > only the info from my last installation upgrade on 2002/03/17.
> 
> Look in /var/logs
>  
> > I really like the improved look and organization of the new 
> > setup.exe, but can someone clarify what it is doing behind the scenes?
> 
> Thanks (on behalf of all the contributors). I hope the above info helps.
> 
> Rob
> 
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