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Re: naim review (was Re: Pending package status (14 Jul 2003))


Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Daniel Reed wrote:
>
>> On 2003-07-15T17:31+0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> ) On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> ) > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> ) > > url    :
>> http://shell.n.ml.org/n/naim/naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10-cygwinrelease.tar.bz2 )
OK,
>> the sun is shining, it's a lovely day..and I uploaded naim :-) Please
send )
>> an announcement in a couple of hours.
>> Got the announce written up, went to verify the install procedure and ran
>> into a problem. If I run setup, http://mirrors.rcn.net/ mirror, go to
Net,
>> and install naim, it downloads the .tar.bz2, makes like it's installing,
>> then exits with a message: Nothing needed to be installed. None of the
files
>> in the package seem to appear in /usr/bin, /usr/doc/Cygwin, or elsewhere.
If
>> I cd / and manually
>> tar -jxvf .../release/naim/naim-0.11.5.9.cyg11-1.tar.bz2
>> it does appear to install successfully, so I'm not sure what might be up.
I
>> have tried deltree'ing C:\cygwin\ and reinstalling from scratch, just in
>> case I had broken something in my own install, but no dice.
>
> OK, I have an incling that this is because of the package file names. I've
> renamed the files, to see if setup will grok them.

It's not the names. That didn't seem right, and testing confirmed - same
failure mode when the version number is changed to 0.11.5-1 in file names
and setup.ini.

Nothing else looks odd with the package files, either.

I'll see if I can add some extra logging to the relevant place in setup.


Max.


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