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Re: Please try new setup exe's
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:37:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: Please try new setup exe's
- References: <20130715170553 dot GA6166 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <20130716002025 dot GA7360 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <51E4A698 dot 7040308 at cornell dot edu> <20130716020836 dot GA7389 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx>
On 16/07/2013 03:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:49:12PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 7/15/2013 8:20 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:05:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> I'd appreciate it if people could try the two new setup.exe's
>>>> installed at http://cygwin.com/
>>>>
>>>> http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe for 32-bit
>>>> http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe for 64-bit
>>>>
>>>> The setup.ini's for both are updated using a similar schedule to the
>>>> "official and soon to be deleted" version which uses
>>>> /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/release. The -x86* versions of these programs
>>>> use the release directories from the arch specific locations.
>>>>
>>>> The setup.ini's used by these two new programs are not
>>>> backwards-compatible with old setup.exe.
>>>
>>> Just to be clear, these new setup.exe's should not do anything untoward
>>> to your existing installation. They should *just work*.
>>
>> setup-x86_64.exe behaves differently from setup64.exe with respect to
>> source-only packages. (I don't know which one is "right".) This is
>> showing up for me because the 64-bit versions of gcc and readline are
>> source-only packages that are (incorrectly?) required by other packages.
>> setup64.exe seems to ignore these requirements, whereas
>> setup-x86_64.exe wants to install the packages but then reports
>> "Incomplete download".
>
> Thanks for trying this. I doubt that is anything that I introduced.
>
> Do you see the same behavior from setup-x86.exe?
In x86, readline is the devel package, and so has source and binary tar files.
In x86_64, the packaging is different and a libreadline-devel package has been
added, so readline is now source only, but has things which depend on it (e.g.
gawk, gdb, python) becuase they haven't been updated for this change.
It seems setup reports trying to install a package for which it knows no
versions with the helpful message "Incomplete download" :-)