Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Rolf Campbell rcampbell@tropicnetworks.com
Wed Mar 26 23:02:00 GMT 2003


Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 03:15, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> 
>>Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>>A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to
>>>reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed.
>>>
>>>The new version is available from
>>>http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.exe (binary) and
>>>http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.tar.bz2 (source).
>>>
>>>Pending any regressions being discovered, this release will become the
>>>production release in ~1 weeks time.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Rob
>>
>>When I run the new installer, it picks up all the XFree packages by 
>>default.  I stopped it, then ran the old installer, and it didn't try to 
>>install any XFree stuff.
> 
> 
> Ok, are you installing from a local cache, or 'from the internet'.
'from the internet'

> Do you have any custom mirrors, or are you just using official ones.
http://mirror.rcn.net
> Can you attached the output of cygcheck -c to your reply.
Yes, I believe I can.

> Can you bz2 /var/log/setup.full.log and attach that as well.
Yes, I believe I can.

> Your problem *may* be a bug in the beta. More likely there was a bug /
> corner case in the current release that we've corrected. (FWIW, it
> doesn't pull in all the Xfree packages for me).
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob
> 

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