Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

[Ken Brown]

On 10/17/2015 1:06 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>>> I maintain my own small repository at a remote site and mirror it on my local
>>> machine.  It contains, for each architecture, setup.ini, setup.xz, and
>>> setup.xz.sig.  Installation from the remote site works fine.  If I try to
>>> install from my local mirror, setup complains that it can't find setup.ini.sig.
>>>    I can install from the local mirror only if I add setup.ini.sig.
>
> I install also from a local mirror, not signed ini files (yet) and I
> haven't had any problems.  I happen to have installed a new machine just
> this week so I know this also works OK.  If there is a setup.xz,
> setup.ini shouldn't even be looked at and consequently no setup.ini.xz
> file should be required.
>
>> And even then, setup doesn't seem to work right on the local mirror.
>> The only choices it gives me on the local packages are "Keep" and
>> "Uninstall".
>
> That would indicate it hasn't actually found any packages in whatever it
> used as setup.ini.  What's your directory layout?  I can't make any
> sense of what's happening for you.  Your local mirror should look like:
>
> mirror
>   /x86
>     /setup.xz
>     /setup.xz.sig
>   /x86_64
>     /setup.xz
>     /setup.xz.sig
>
> and setup should be pointed at "mirror".

OK, doing it that way works.  But if I add setup.ini alongside setup.xz and 
setup.xz.sig, then setup complains about not finding setup.ini.sig.

Also, having to point setup at "mirror" is a major change from the way local 
installs used to work.  I have the following structure:

download directory
   http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/
   http...
   http...
   mirror

and I have always pointed setup at "download directory" for a local install.  In 
the past, this would then pick up the packages from all the http directories as 
well as from "mirror".  Was it a deliberate change that this no longer works? 
This change is probably what's behind the problem the others in this thread have 
reported.

Ken

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