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Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log
- From: Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:39:29 -0600
- Subject: Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log
- References: <CAFWoy7FT1T7v=WOvKNRpz7vryCZ0SvYYooDmzH_HU06igu-yhA@mail.gmail.com> <87muioniop.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
- Reply-to: Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca
On 2019-06-11 11:19, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Keith Christian writes:
>> Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option
>> box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and
>> continue?"
>
> You'd first have to teach setup to distinguish between fatal and
> non-fatal errors. A missing package archive is always fatal as far as
> setup is concerned (how did that happen anyway?).
A mirror update failure, an unsafe mirror update process, or the latter leading
to the former.
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