Updating failure -- now success!

[Simon McQueen]

On 05/02/2009 19:38, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-02-05, Simon McQueen wrote:
>> On 05/02/2009 18:39, Sam Kuper wrote:
>>> 2009/2/5 Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com>:
>>>> I tried again this morning, a little after 10 a.m. PST, from my
>>>> usual mirror site cygwin.osuosl.org.  Setup.exe spent a few minutes
>>>> fetching quite a few files and installing them, then finished
>>>> without any error messages.  Everything seems to be working fine
>>>> now.  Yay!  And whew!
>>> I just tried reinstalling bash via the same mirror, and got the same
>>> error message (the one I posted about an hour or two ago) about
>>> cygreadline6.dll not being found :(
>> If I'm understanding the other posts correctly this issue stems from the 
>> fact that there are a number of packages in the setup.ini (that is read 
>> by setup.exe) files on all the mirrors that are missing required:
>>
>> version:
>> install:
>>
>> ... lines. vim (grep for '@ vim') is a good example. Before everyone 
>> pounds this poor mirror to death hoping for a solution by doing fresh 
>> installs you can see by looking at:
>>
>> ftp://cygwin.osuosl.org/pub/cygwin/setup.ini
>>
>> ... that the problem is still in effect there.
>>
>> You can check this file on a mirror by adding '/pub/cygwin/setup.ini' to 
>> the mirror URL). Presumably there is no point burning the servers 
>> bandwidth doing futile downloads if you still see the same issue present.
> 
> The setup.ini that I just fetched from ftp://cygwin.osuosl.org this
> morning seems to have all the requires: lines.  For example,

Sorry - I think you may have misread my post. I didn't say anything 
about 'requires:' lines being missing.

I based what I put on what Corrina Vinschen said in her post 
(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00120.html) which said:

"Lots of packages are missing version and install lines,
not only libreadline6(*).  It's just the one package all people using
bash seeing immediately.  Scanning the ini file I saw at least 60 or
so packages affected by this problem.  Their package information block
just stops right after the "requires:" line."

The install and version lines are still missing on my local mirror so I 
reckon I need to standby for a while.

> 
> 
> $ ls -l setup.ini
> -rwx------+ 1 garyjohn mkgroup-l-d 909563 Feb  5 10:11 setup.ini
> 
> $ perl -00 -ne 'print if /^@ vim/' setup.ini 
> @ vim
> sdesc: "Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor"
> ldesc: "Vim (Vi IMproved) is an almost compatible version of the
> UNIX editor
> vi. Almost every possible command can be performed using only ASCII
> characters. Many new features have been added: multilevel undo,
> command line
> history, file name completion, block operations, and editing of
> binary data."
> category: Editors
> requires: cygwin terminfo libncurses8 libiconv2 libintl8
> 
> 
> If that not what you and others see, I would bet that the old
> version of that file is being cached by a proxy somewhere in your
> network path.
> 
> Regards,
> Gary

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