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Re: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again?
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Paul wrote:
> Robert Pendell <shinji+cygwin <at> elite-systems.org> writes:
>> If you can find the .tmp files then try deleting them and redownloading from
>> another mirror. It is possible the file is failing the validation check and
>> the installer is assuming(?) an incomplete file. I personally pull from the
>> kernel.org mirror and it works fine.
>
> The sites that I use have worked fine for years, so this is something of an
> anomaly.
>
> No hits come up with "find <package-directory> -name '*tmp*'".
>
> I managed to kluge a method to compare my installed packages with those
> downloaded and recorded in setup.log, thus identifying potentially missing
> packages and confirming that they will probably not be a problem. The listing
> of installed packages was gotten using cygcheck while the setup.log contained
> all the packages that successfully downloaded. I removed all the extraneous
> information in the 2 files that did not relate to packages, used vim editor
> capabilities to make the formatting match between the 2 files, then sorted the
> packages by name. Here are the missing packages:
>
> Obsolete
> --------
> _autorebase 000164-1
> _update-info-dir 01088-1
> libpng12 1.2.50-2
> libpng14 1.4.12-3
> libpng14-devel 1.4.12-3
> vala-libcanberra-gtk 0.29-1
> w32api 9999-1
>
> Not obsolete
> ------------
> libpoppler19 0.18.4-2
>
> I determined whether a package was obsolete by using the cygwin's setup.exe,
> putting the versionless package name into the Search field, and toggling the
> switch for hiding obsolete packages. I'm not too worried about the 1 missing
> non-obsolete package, since setup.exe will prompt you to include packages that
> are needed to fulfill dependencies.
>
> However, I was surprised to see the obsolescence of autorebase. It was just
> recently made fully functional. Perhaps it has been folded into another
> package. I browsed the cygwin website & documentation to find release notes
> that might explain this, but no luck. I also tried googling for release notes,
> in vain.
>
> Anyway, I will create a CD of the installation packages and test it on Monday.
>
> Thanks!
>
It isn't obsolete. All obsolete packages get assigned to _obsolete
group. _autorebase is assigned to _PostInstallLast and is still an
active group. It is likely hidden by default to minimize confusion.
Robert Pendell
A perfect world is one of chaos.
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